Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .

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 immature mind hops from one thing to another

If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.

It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.

[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to be contextual, holistic thinkers.

Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character.

Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news.

Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.

Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.

...One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside.