“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”
"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
Awareness
"You don’t take a photograph, you make it."
- Ansel Adams
Creativity
"You don't take a photograph, you make it."
- Ansel Adams
Creativity
"The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature."
- Ansel Adams
Creativity
"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment."
- Ansel Adams
Perseverance
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity