Dubbed "Mr. Conservative", Barry Goldwater was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona and the Republican Party's candidate for President in the 1964 election. A gifted photographer who produced beautiful pictures illustrating his beloved Arizona landscape, Goldwater is credited with sparking the resurgence of the American conservative movement with his presidential campaign. Later in life, he expressed regret for supporting construction of the Glen Canyon Dam. In 1996, Goldwater joined Republicans for Environmental Protection.

Quotes:

"While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment."

"The Conscience of a Majority (1970)"

"At this sunset hour, the canyon walls are indescribably beautiful and I fear the magic of photography can never record what I see now. The tall spires near the canyon's top and the walls of the canyon up there look as if God had reached out and swiped a brush of golden paint across them, gilding these rocks in the bright glow of the setting sun."

"An Odyssey of the Green and Colorado Rivers," 1940

"We are on the Colorado...that means something more to me than thoughts of electrical power or a harnessed river."

"An Odyssey of the Green and Colorado Rivers," 1940

"Well, once you've been in the Canyon and once you've sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends...it's always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I've often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon."

boatman's quarterly review, interview with Barry Goldwater, fall 1994

"My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four walls of a house of worship, but everywhere -- in the rising sun over Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, a splash of water along the nearby Salt or Verde rivers, or clouds driving over the Estrella Mountains, south of downtown. I've always thought of God in those terms."

"Goldwater" (1988)

Barry Goldwater (1909 - 1998)