While the photos at the D.M.V. (New York) will still be taken in color, the engraving is done in grayscale, hence the Ansel Adams feel.

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.

Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.

Each and every Indian, man or woman, child or Elder, is a spirit-warrior.

No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

When you get questions that annoy you the art is answering them differently. If you're bored with it, then everyone will be bored with it.

I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.

I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10.

The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good.

It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.

If there is one thing I am, it's always right.

I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.