© David Muench

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TEARDROP ARCH

(VOICE OF STUDENT MARK)

Being with a man who knows just how to take us to the fine places — not only that. To point out the proper technique to shoot, the framing, the light, the shadows, it's just perfect — It's just super experienced. I'm talking and my lips are cold, but it's been, it's just wonderful. Can't tell you how wonderful it's been.

SUNSET ATOP CEDAR MESA/NAVAJO MOUNTAIN

(VOICE OF STUDENT WALTER)

I picture him as an artist, I really do. I think he will be remembered as one of the greats.

(MUENCH VOICE OVER)

The last thing I would like to do on this planet would be to walk up a desert wash.

To become exposed to something this grand, that would be most fulfilling, you know, as a finish to a journey — a journey that I am really on all the time ... with camera in hand.

I feel — a human connection with some great things on the planet through my lifetime. I would like to be available and have people just appreciate them ... to feel I went down in a legacy of communicating with people, those strengths and the excitement, the beauty of nature. That would be enough.

This is Chief Seattle saying, this is his famous quote. It's just amazing, and it's so obvious. "This we know, the earth does not belong to man, it belongs to the earth. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." And that really says it all, doesn't it?