I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

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.

The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .