...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.

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.

Sectarian thinking is contagious and rapidly spread.

The pie of success is undoubtedly big enough for everyone to work hard enough for it and get a hefty slice.

There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.

The thought of going abroad makes my heart leap.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

Albertus [Magnus] ... debased the doctrine of Aristotle with the itch of the chemists flowing with the bloody flux of quicksilver and the stench of sulphur.

The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.

I will not resign because my resignation will not resolve anything.