To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

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.

Empowered Women 101: Empowered women never live the life they wouldn't want for their daughter. They teach them what self respect looks like.

I love to chase my shadow to feel how it rests in the dark.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

As long as you don't compliment yourself, your environments and your job, you will always be miserable. Complaints bring misery, compliments brings strength.

You don't have to know much, just a little bit more than everybody else.

Your goal as a leader isn't to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.

No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.

It's so cool for me to do what I love to do for a living and meet people from all over the world.

It doesn't matter; even if you do tend to wear the same things all the time, it's how you wear them and your attitude that counts.

I'm really not good at dressing up and being glamorous.