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"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."
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"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."
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"My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport."
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"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
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"Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat."
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"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind."
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"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."
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"Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be."
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"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."
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"Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower."
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"As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic."
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"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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"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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"I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued."
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"Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions."
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"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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"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."
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"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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"My first thought is always of light."
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"There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement."
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"I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra."
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