To Photograph Truthfully And Effectively Is To

The Photo-journalist And The Photo-poet Are Both Important. The Problem Is To Separate The Major Objectives Of The Various Groups And Not To Attribute Qualities And Intentions Where They Do Not Belong.

I Believe The Approach Of The Artist And The Approach Of The Environmentalist Are Fairly Close In That Both Are, To A Rather Impressive Degree, Concerned With The Affirmation Of Life.

Yosemite Valley, To Me, Is Always A Sunrise, A Glitter Of Green And Golden Wonder In A Vast Edifice Of Stone And Space. I Know Of No Sculpture, Painting Or Music That Exceeds The Compelling Spiritual Command Of The Soaring Shape Of Granite Cliff And Dome, Of Patina Of Light On Rock And Forest, And Of The Thunder And Whispering Of The Falling, Flowing Waters. At First The Colossal Aspect May Dominate; Then We Perceive And Respond To The Delicate And Persuasive Complex Of Nature.

I Respect Everything In Change And The Solemn Beauty Of Life And Death... And Therefore, While Man Is Amidst The Immense Beauty Of Objective Bodies, He Must Possess The Capacity Of Self-perfection And Must Observe And Represent His World With Full Confidence.

We Must Remember That A Photograph Can Hold Just As Much As We Put Into It, And No One Has Ever Approached The Full Possibilities Of The Medium.