All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

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.

Praying is holy act.

I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.

Anytime students shout down a speaker who says something different, this is not good.

... you are legally allowed to drink kid, so we figured the best thing for you is a car.

True love can break the most powerful curse

A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.

The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .

We are not saved by denying self, or taking up our cross, or doing anything else, we are saved by simply believing in Jesus.

Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?

One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman.