If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.

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.

The presence of a good friend brings big smiles.

And I would give my self to this light just to have my brother and mother by each other’s side. I would swim back to the ocean and birth a creature of acceptance

People who are thinking about your music almost as much as you are, that almost never happens.

Be hald, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all. There are to decline your nectared wine, But all you must drink life's gall.

She was the kind of gal that if she set her sights on a man, he'd be running in the opposite direction real quick.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

Truth only means something when it's hard to admit.

Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.

Always keeping in mind that you become what you think about, be very careful about any thoughts you harbor that involve doubt.