Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.

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.

God does not love us because we are hard or easy to love, He loves us because He is God.

Light works most effectively in darkness.

Any story is better with a little love in it, right?

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

None of my teams win anything. They are an extension of my personality.

I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw

That's the magic of filmmaking, to draw the audience into an exotic world and keep them there and keep the suspense.

If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before."

What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.

To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.