Quotes by 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 as meaningfully as possible.

Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm.

A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.

I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.