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

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

How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.

"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?""

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.

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.

A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.