My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.

The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.

Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.

Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human race and even very likely for its survival.

I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used.

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there.

... anyone who really believed what they were saying could get it said in a lot fewer words.

Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, you all had great moments, but you never tasted the supreme triumph; you were never a farm boy riding in from the fields on a bulging rack of new-mown hay.

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

Go do the right thing.

I never thought that I was very intelligent

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

Behind the cross is the devil.

Marriage is an an inherently contradictory state. It involves the fusion of two people into one thing. And it's also love, and it's a lot of work, and it's got glory in its drudgery.

Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future.

The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.