There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.

Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

The eyes are the window of the soul.

First we had the land and they had the Bibles, now we have the Bibles and they have the land

[Rural people] have a different lifestyle, and they don't want to change it. They're happy with the way things are. It's causing the party political problems.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

I've been taught from a young age to want to be the best driver... It was about being the best driver and not the best girl.

This is a tragic world we live in.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

Oh how beautiful to fall to give you flight, to die to give you life, to rest under your sky; and in your enchanted land forever sleep.

I became a country music fan in 1990 when I moved to Colorado. It was my first exposure to it because I'm from a city. I've been a fan of country music ever since.

I eat healthily because that's the way I prefer to eat, and I'm sure it helps keep the weight off.