I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.

I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.

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

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

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.