“That experience of being at Mt. St. Helen's was really formative. I do...” — David Maisel Quote

“That experience of being at Mt. St. Helen's was really formative. I don't even know if I'd be a photographer. It was an essential moment for me.”

“With the mining sites, I found a subject matter that carried forth my fascination with the undoing of the landscape, in terms of both its formal beauty and its environmental politics.”

“The thing that struck me most about the Mount St. Helens project was not the devastation of the eruption, but the logging industry - the earth transformed on that scale by humans.”

“Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.”

“Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.”

“Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?”