Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.

The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should not casually pass them by, for they are the very heart of the earth speaking to us.

We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.