Ansel Adams

"The whole world is, to me, very much 'alive'—all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can’t look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life—the things going on-within them."

- Ansel Adams

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."

- Ansel Adams

"You don’t take a photograph, you make it."

- Ansel Adams

"You don't take a photograph, you make it."

- Ansel Adams

"The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature."

- Ansel Adams

"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment."

- Ansel Adams

"Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space."

- Ansel Adams