I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

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.

Leaders prioritize what they want.

It seems quite pointless to waste health relentlessly in order to earn money that we shall spend on recovering health.

Life luscious wet life bereft of death, loss of empty shell minus absent of nothing exploding star cell amoeba sweet algae oxygen, hydrogen flowering in the vacuum ofspace and magnetic motion.

Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere.Try to commit an act of writingand they will jump overboard to get away.

For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.

I have the talent and the tools to win.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.

There's two kind of cherries, and two kind of fairies, and two kind of mothers I'm told.