A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

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.

It is not so much about fighting against the ego

People shouldn't just talk about you, they should tell your tales.

Agony is not something that happens to you.To agonize is a choice.

If you light a lamp for someone it will also brighten your path.

The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.

You can very easily be turned into a commodity. I've grown up with it.

I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.

To me, the most telling thing is we have a man [Donald Trump] who cannot complete a sentence.

There are two things that are hard to hit and see. That's a spooky ghost and Muhammad Ali.

When I was younger I feared the dark, wondering what evil was watching me. Now it's different, for now it's a game of sneaking the light back on and laughing at how quickly the evil fleas.