Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance to grow and spread.

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

Nothing attracts me like a closed door.

Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another. There is something demoralizing about going back to a place to retake pictures. You can no longer see your subjects in a fresh eye; you keep comparing them with the pictures you hold in your memory. [The] world was full of discoveries waiting to be made...(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned...you would react to something all others might walk by.

The world was waiting to be full of discovery made(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned.you would react to something all others might walk by.