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.

More Quotes by Galen Rowell

My first thought is always of light.

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.

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.

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.