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

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .

It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.

The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.

We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.

Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways.

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.