Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.

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.

I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion.

To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.

I think back when I was kind of a crappy writer, I really did know my time was better spent working and having adventures and seeing the world.

There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.

Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive.

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

It would be impossible to be fact-checking Donald Trump all the time.

The next time you face a room full of strangers . . . you might tell yourself that some of them are just friends waiting to be found.

The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.