If you stopped playing notes, Music would still exist.
I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
I've learned that if you want people to join in any kind of conservation effort, you have to help them to care with their hearts, not just their heads.
In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.
You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were going to have.