All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

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.

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

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.