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Galen Rowell

"There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too."

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Amber Hurdle

"We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Questions... I question that... and than... soona I am going to question and my existence."

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Amber Hurdle

"Reasons... questions... what they have in common?- All get finded in the hard way."

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Amber Hurdle

"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."

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Amber Hurdle

"Never ask a bore a question."

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Amber Hurdle

"To be, or not to be: that is the question."

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Amber Hurdle

"A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life's concrete jungle."

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Amber Hurdle

"The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'"

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Amber Hurdle

"I think the sea has thrown itself upon me and been answered, at least in part, and I believe I am a little changed - not essentially, but changed and transubstantiated as anyone is who has asked a question and been answered."

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Amber Hurdle

"I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?"

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Galen Rowell
"Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm."

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Galen Rowell
"The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible."

Being

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Galen Rowell
"Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment."

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Galen Rowell
"If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better."

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Galen Rowell
"My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers."

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Galen Rowell
"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."

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Galen Rowell
"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."

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Galen Rowell
"I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light."

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Galen Rowell
"I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing."

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Galen Rowell
"I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards."

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