It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

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.

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.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

we must remember that the end of personal mastery is service to others.

Maybe I should just lie quietly inside you while our old selves slip in and out of the back rooms of the soul.

Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.

In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

When I'm down or maybe when it's close in the match, I feel like I'm still in it. I don't feel like I'm letting down. Mentally, I'm still really, really tough.

The truth isn't what we say, it's how we feel when we say it.

When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.

I know I love my kids and I know they love me. I know I have beautiful friends and a great family, and I know I've been really blessed in this life.

...arranging the journey was so difficult. Getting home again was much easier.