We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simplicity of experience in these wild places or we don't. We admit an almost religious devotion to the clean exposition of the wild, natural earth or we don't.

Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

Bad weather makes for good photography.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

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.