“No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied; it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.”
Ansel Adams · Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (1985)
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The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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Adams put human creativity above nearly everything else in his life, mountains included, which tells you where he placed his faith.
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