The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.

The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.

The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the portals of the temple ... to enter the wilderness and seek, in the primal patterns of nature, a magical union with beauty.

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.