Teaching Has Never Been Far

That Statement [ Stephen Ambrose:'you, Sam, Have The Hardest Job, Which Is, Pretend Like Nothing Has Happened In The Last 200 Years.'] Woke Me Up To The Fact That The Landscape That Lewis And Clark Came Across Was Greater Than The Serengeti. And It's Gone.

Typically I See It With Photographers Who Go To A Place Like India Or Nepal, And Everything's So Colorful And Exotic And They Think, Therefore, A Picture's Been Taken.

When I First Went To 'national Geographic,' I Thought I Was The Least Qualified Person To Step Through The Doors. But Because Of My Parents And The Culture Of Continual Learning They Imposed On Us, I Later Came To Believe I Was The Most Qualified Person Who Ever Worked There.

I'm Very Involved In Photographing America Now, So I Don't Think Of Faraway Places, As I Did When I Was Young.

I Would Like To Go To Antarctica. That's About All.