Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.

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.

Some part of me knew that was important. That once it would have mattered terribly to me.

It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them.

Purple lipstick? Naw, that looks stupid on all girls!

As a 25 year director of a non-profit program I began to see the need to shift from only doing projects/programs to also doing policy work.

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.

Culture is another dimension.

The coolest thing is that my sister and I, you know, we've done what a lot of people have not been able to do. Which is to have our own careers, together.

Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.