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"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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"It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong."
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"I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf."
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"What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise."
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"The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that."
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"I expected to go into journalism or law."
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"I don't think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there's a hunger out there for - whether it's on the left or right - a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that."
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"While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers."
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"I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam."
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"Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism."
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"Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively."
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"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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"Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions."
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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."
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"These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message."
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"The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images."
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"There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement."
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"One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it."
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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 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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"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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