We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simplicity of experience in these wild places or we don't. We admit an almost religious devotion to the clean exposition of the wild, natural earth or we don't.

The camera cannot, but the photographer can.

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

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

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.

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

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.