When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

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.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

It's funny. That feeling of home. It's so temporary, like bathwater: the warmth eventually grows cold.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it.

Giving that is not motivated by love is worth nothing.

We have to do more about addiction, not only drugs, but also alcohol.

I think I wanna do some action stuff down the road. I wanna kill some aliens. Something real fun, you know? Just a big, fun movie.

The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.

Leave my diapers moist in the back seat of your Rolls Royce

Why me?' I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive.