I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

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.

Everlasting love, unfailing kindness.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.

The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader.

But something cannot be made out of nothing. Dust rose in the air, caught the rays of the sun for a brief moment and sparkled, and then returned to the earth as mere dust.

Objects and their manufacture are inseparable, you understand a product if you understand how it's made.

If you're a young person, like I used to be and you're at home and you're being called weird or different, I'm here to tell you your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.

I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think were pretty much alike!

The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.

I would not live alway; I ask not to stay Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way.