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

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"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

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

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

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

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

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"Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you're home."

- Carol Nelson

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"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."

- Joanna Gaines

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"The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood."

- Richard Paul Evans

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"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime."

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

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- Joanna Gaines

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