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"I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued."
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"He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. 'This one has the magic,' he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us."
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"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."
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"When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward."
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"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."
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"When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days."
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"I've been working with photography for many years."
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"Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter."
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"We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium."
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"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words."
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"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
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"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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"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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"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."
Journalism
"There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement."
Environment
"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."
Vision
"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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"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."
People
"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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"My first thought is always of light."
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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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