"My closest experience with profound human suffering was that earthquake and fire. But we were not burned out, ruined, or bereft of family and friends. I never went to war, too young for the First and too old for the Second. The great events of the world have been tragic pageants, not personal involvements. My world has been a world too few people are lucky enough to live in- one of peace and beauty. I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate."
Ansel Adams