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"I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails."
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"Visionaries create dreams out of thin air!"

"Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it."

"If in the laukik (worldly life), one attains the vision of alaukik (beyond the world), his work is accomplished."

"Eyesight can be so blinding. We need to look beyond the face of things."

"If you want to improve performance and productivity, set a vision that inspires and delights."

"See the bigger picture of yours and refuse the passport size creature that people think you are! Your nature is large, go for it. Feel free to wake up and print your bigger picture!"

"The vision teller tells the vision to unguarded minds' of prey. The programmed."
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"A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light."

"The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted."

"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."

"These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message."
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