One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

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.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

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

I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.

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

As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.