We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

Delay of pain: that was the meaning of life, wasn’t it?“I’ve made some bad decisions, ” Caine said, not really meaning to say it out loud.

Few seem to be able to eat a turkey leg at Disneyland without splattering tsunami scale grease, so grab plenty of napkins or wear a bib, tablecloth or scuba suit.

And I learned from my own experience that laughter was the most potent weapon: laughter can kill everything.

I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up.

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.

Make the right decision even when nobody's looking and you will always turn out okay.

Passion isn't always available. The committed get things done even without it.

In all things there is a law of cycles.