All animals are sad after coitus except the female human and the rooster.

A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.

I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience

What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world

The physician is only nature's assistant.