Calculating Quote by Galen Rowell

I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or…

— Galen Rowell

Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you…

— Galen Rowell

Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast…

— Galen Rowell

The most interesting parts of the natural world are the edges, places where ocean meets land, meadow meets forest, timberline touches the heights.

— Galen Rowell

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

— Galen Rowell

We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.

— Galen Rowell

Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

— Galen Rowell

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next…

— Galen Rowell

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

— Galen Rowell

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across…

— Galen Rowell

Small, portable digital cameras that exceed the performance of an off-the-shelf Nikon using 35mm slide film are further away from current reality than the…

— Galen Rowell

And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

— Galen Rowell