precious gift...

"My goal as a person and,
consequently, as a photographer,
is to witness, participate in,
and hopefully share
the delicate beauty of wilderness –
those moments in time
when nature and spirit
transcend the make-believe world
of politics, economics,
[unimportant] religious squabbles,
fleeting fashion, mass 'entertainment,'
and other means of wasting
the precious gift of thought and inspiration
we are each endowed with."
- Guy Tal