The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.

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.

She crossed her legs and kicked out her feet, clad in thick wool socks and boots big enough to house a little old lady.

It is easy for anybody to call himself or herself a “Christian” but the truth is we respond from very different world-views.

I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.

"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.

If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.

It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.

Intuition is a powerful business tool. Use it.

The Britain I love works with its friends and neighbours it doesn't walk away from them.

If you read to me I could tell you everything that was read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?