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

The negative is the score, and the print the performance.

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

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

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

We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people... The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere.

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.