No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

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.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale.

Gravity Falls has transformed the children of America into an army of Dippers. I couldn't be more proud!

It's just such a freeing thing to set these great challenges for yourself, to travel, to learn more about the world, to just go out there and get crazy and get free and get strong.

The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.

If you will please people, you must please them in their own way.

Love is a context, not a behavior.

I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

It is more important to outhink your enemy, than to outfight him

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.