It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

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.

Newt Scamander : "My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.

Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.

Repentance is the first step on the path back to your relationship with God.

When you lead the wise, walk behind them.When you lead the virtuous, walk beside them.When you lead the imprudent, walk in front of them.

If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?

The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.

... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.

Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it.