The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted

The best physician is also a philosopher.

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

Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it

Confidence and hope do more good than physic.

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

After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.