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Galen Rowell

"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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

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Amber Hurdle

"The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort."

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Amber Hurdle

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

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Amber Hurdle

"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."

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Amber Hurdle

"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

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Amber Hurdle

"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."

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Amber Hurdle

"You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in."

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Amber Hurdle

"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

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Amber Hurdle

"Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated."

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Amber Hurdle

"The Commonwealth has had consistently bad press. It was originally seen as a kind of hangover empire. People have long predicted its demise."

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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."

Photography

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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
"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."

Career

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Galen Rowell
"There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement."

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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."

Vision

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Galen Rowell
"I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed."

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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 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."

Vision

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