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.

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

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

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

If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.

We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are."

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.