The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

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.

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.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

In order to survive in a world of instinct, its' alternative is to hunt or being hunted.Reject this, then be prepared to be hunted.

The trouble with words is that no matter how much sense they make in theory, they can’t change what you feel inside.

From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

It’s the people who don’t worry—those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right—they’re the ones that cause the problems.

We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Even on home runs that I hit in the past, guys were like, 'Man, you need to slow down. You've got that one.

Les te moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them.

David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me.

How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention.

Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.