And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either.

I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

When the magic hour arrives, my thoughts center on light rather than on the landscape. I search for perfect light, then hunt for something earthbound to match with it.

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.

Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.

The most interesting parts of the natural world are the edges, places where ocean meets land, meadow meets forest, timberline touches the heights.

A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.

I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

Silence is golden but too long a silence an imitation junk

And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadn’t learned self-consciousnessknew how to smile.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

Another reality is a whisper away.

The only waste of human resources is letting them go unused.

It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still

Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.

Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.