“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”

— Dorothea Lange

“If you wish to create an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the whole universe.”

— Carl Sagan

“O to be self-balanced for contingencies,to confront night storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs,as the trees and animals do.”

— William Least Heat-Moon quoting Walt Whitman in Blue Highways

“To insist that diligent thought would bring an understanding of change was to limit life to the comprehensible.”

— William Least Heat-Moon in Blue Highways

“Photography for me is one medium, one tool for exploring the world and my relationship to the world”

— Alec Soth