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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own Government to save the environment.

— Ansel Adams

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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.

A Personal Credo (1943)

The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.

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: An Autobiography (1985)

The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (1985)

If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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