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Top 20 Galen Rowell Quotes (2025 Update)

Galen Rowell Quote: “You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn’t waste either.”

1. “You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn’t waste either.”

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Galen Rowell Quote: “My first thought is always of light.”

2. “My first thought is always of light.”

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Galen Rowell Quote: “When the magic hour arrives, my thoughts center on light rather than on the landscape. I search for perfect light, then hunt for something earthbound to match with it.”

3. “When the magic hour arrives, my thoughts center on light rather than on the landscape. I search for perfect light, then hunt for something earthbound to match with it.”

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Galen Rowell Quote: “And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.”

4. “And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.”

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Galen Rowell Quote: “My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved from an intense devotion to mountains and wilderness that eventually shaped all the parts of my life and brought them together.”

5. “My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved from an intense devotion to mountains and wilderness that eventually shaped all the parts of my life and brought them together.”

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Galen Rowell Quote: “I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.”

6. “I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.”

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Galen Rowell Quote: “I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I’ve ever done. It’s a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.”

7. “I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I’ve ever done. It’s a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.”

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Galen Rowell Quote: “I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.”

8. “I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.”

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Galen Rowell Quote: “Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What went on in the city during the week seemed chaotic and unrelated to the events in my mountain world.”

9. “Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What went on in the city during the week seemed chaotic and unrelated to the events in my mountain world.”

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Galen Rowell Quote: “My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing or aren’t doing. Figure out what works for you, what turns you on, what gives you the greatest amount of energy and feeling of satisfaction.”

10. “My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing or aren’t doing. Figure out what works for you, what turns you on, what gives you the greatest amount of energy and feeling of satisfaction.”

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Galen Rowell Quote: “When I go to the mountains, I intuitively know my place in the world much better through these experiences. The more intense they are, the better I know myself, and the more I am able to challenge myself.”

11. “When I go to the mountains, I intuitively know my place in the world much better through these experiences. The more intense they are, the better I know myself, and the more I am able to challenge myself.”

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Galen Rowell Quote: “Small, portable digital cameras that exceed the performance of an off-the-shelf Nikon using 35mm slide film are further away from current reality than the proposed NASA manned Mars mission, although I expect both to happen sometime during my lifetime.”

12. “Small, portable digital cameras that exceed the performance of an off-the-shelf Nikon using 35mm slide film are further away from current reality than the proposed NASA manned Mars mission, although I expect both to happen sometime during my lifetime.”

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Galen Rowell Quote: “When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a mountain. A minute – and sometimes mere seconds – can make the difference between a superb image and a mundane one.”

13. “When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a mountain. A minute – and sometimes mere seconds – can make the difference between a superb image and a mundane one.”

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Galen Rowell Quote: “A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.”

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

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Galen Rowell Quote: “The most interesting parts of the natural world are the edges, places where ocean meets land, meadow meets forest, timberline touches the heights.”

15. “The most interesting parts of the natural world are the edges, places where ocean meets land, meadow meets forest, timberline touches the heights.”

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Galen Rowell Quote: “Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.”

16. “Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.”

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Galen Rowell Quote: “There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.”

17. “There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.”

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Galen Rowell Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

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Galen Rowell Quote: “Today, I’m very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.”

19. “Today, I’m very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.”

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Galen Rowell Quote: “We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.”

20. “We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.”

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Galen Rowell Quote: “Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.”

21. “Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.”

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Galen Rowell Quote: “Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.”

22. “Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.”

— Galen Rowell

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