Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

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.

Man's capacity to innovate should not exceed his ability to live in peace.

It is more than just memory, I think, that binds us to the past. The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around...

I've always been called "controversial." I think if I were not controversial I wouldn't be doing my job.

Education is such a noble profession, its a wonderful way to serve.

I think you've got to be honest with yourself at what you're good at. That's the hardest thing to do.

We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.

I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.