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

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

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.

Photography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point of view is developed and young people are inclined to follow it.

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.

The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.