Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

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.

Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.

The way to a woman's heart might best be reached via a short cut.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was momentous.

Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

No happiness gives happiness until you share it with someone.

We can see how the role of mobile has changed in past 20 years. It is a perfect example of how one innovation can change an entire era.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.