You don't take a photograph, you make it.

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.

Discovering God is the key to discovering purpose

The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.

Imperfection is my ticket, perfection is my pursuit

What the proponents of prostitution conveniently ignore is that lack of opportunity is lack of choice.

Where you go, he'll go, " Stebbs said."I know it.""Tough caring about people, isn't it?"... "Wouldn't trade it, " she said.

As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations.

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

The Supreme Court has never ruled that the children of illegal aliens are American citizens.

Christianity is in its nature revolutionary