Ansel Adams
[Photographer, b. 1902, San Francisco, d. 1984, Carmel, California.]
Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and the wonder surrounding him. 
Susan Sontag
[Writer, theorist, and critic, b. 1933, New York, d. 2004, New York.]
Imperfect technique has come to be appreciated precisely because it breaks the sedate equation of Nature and
Beauty. Hugh Hefner
[Publisher and playboy, b. 1926, Chicago, d. 2017, Los Angeles.]
I suggested that sex was not the enemy, that violence was the enemy, that nice girls like sex. The centerfold itself, the girl-next-door-centerfold, in a very simplistic way was rooted in that philosophy, that that sex is okay, it’s a natural part of life, a very radical idea in America... Ernst Haas
[Photographer, b. 1921, Vienna, Austria, d. 1986, New York City.]
Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof that nothing can be imagined which cannot be matched in the counterpoints of nature. Sophie Ristelhueber
[Photographer, b. 1949, Paris, lives in Paris.]
My real interest is traveling the world’s tormented places and revealing the scars and the traces on the ground. I am dedicated to the earth. Ansel Adams
[Photographer, b. 1902, San Francisco, d. 1984, Carmel, California.]
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a huge granite mountain cannot be denied—it speaks in silence to the very core of your being. Chris Marker
[Photographer and filmmaker, b. 1921, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, d. 2012, Paris.]
And always the animalsfrom each trip
you bring back
a gaze
a pose
a gesture
that points
to the truest of humanity
better
than images
of humanity itself
Edward Weston
[Photographer, b. 1886, Highland Park, Illinois, d. 1958, Wildcat Hill, California.]
I don’t give a tinker’s damn about being true to nature.