“I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.”

“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. ”

“There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.”

“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”

“Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.”

“Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.”

“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.”