Quote collection
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"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."
"Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price."
"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."
"I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term - meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster."
"The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!"
"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit."
"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words."
"Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature."
"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."
"Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways."
"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
"Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum."
"I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate."
"Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price"