I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!

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.

Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.

Coffee’s the elixir of life.

Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there.

An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.

I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled.

Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.

It was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be.

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.