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“I would never apologize for photographing rocks. Rocks can be very beautiful.”
Ansel Adams
“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own Government to save the environment.”
Ansel Adams
“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)
“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.”
Ansel Adams · 'A Personal Credo' (1943), published in American Annual of Photography (1944)
“The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.”
François de La Rochefoucauld · Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665-1678), Maxim 298
“Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.”
Rebecca Solnit
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
Eleanor Roosevelt · Tomorrow Is Now, 1963
“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
Eleanor Roosevelt · Quoted in Hillary Rodham Clinton's essay on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1998
“Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has.”
Eleanor Roosevelt · Tomorrow Is Now, 1963
“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”
Eleanor Roosevelt · Quoted in Peter's Quotations by Laurence J. Peter, 1972
“The purpose of life...is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
Eleanor Roosevelt · Foreword to You Learn by Living, 1960
“Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.”
Eleanor Roosevelt · You Learn by Living, 1960
“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
Eleanor Roosevelt · Voice of America broadcast, 1951
“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”
Mary Wollstonecraft · A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792
