Tim McNulty, Poet-Conservationist
For Pat O'Hara, those crystalline moments when the world opens before him have given us some of the most stunning nature images created. In these images, the world becomes more than the sum of its elements, and its great power, mystery, and spirit seem revealed...When we view these and so many of Pat's finest images, we glimpse at more than the pristine beauty of the earth. We recognize something deep in our own nature, something beyond our ability to discern or quantify. We see something of the eternal.

Robert Michael Pyle, Author
Recipient of the John Burroughs Medal for Natural History Writing
...perhaps no other photographer has shown us a clearer path to the woods, the peaks, the tissues of the land. Knowing that everyone who goes forth to interpret the world, to take dictation for the soil, to romance the plants, will come away both refreshed and hurt with the knowledge of the damage being done. And knowing that only the kind of ardor conveyed by these images can change the way things are. Indeed, this century of visions consists of the quintessential O'Hara.

American Photo Magazine
Some photographs make you wonder how--and, if they're good, why--they were made. Others, no less legitimate, make you wish you were there. Pat O'Hara's photographs do both: They show the natural world at its most seductive, yet the elegance of their design calls attention to their consummate craft. These are no mere slice-of-nature pictures.

The New York Times Book Review
These exquisite photographs should in themselves be strong enough to stop the degradation of our lands. Pat O'Hara...makes an estimable contribution to an awareness that leads to concern.

McQuiston & Partners, Book Designers and Packagers
In a profession that is seemingly loaded with talent, Pat O'Hara is, to use a singular phrase, a unique photographer. Otherwise we wouldn't have chosen so many of his images for our books. Over the years, Pat has been the principal photographer in nine of our books, and he has contributed to many others. His intimate knowledge of the natural world enables him to see things in abstract as well as concrete terms, and it is his eye for the unusual that gives him his compositions such originality and depth of feeling.

Aperture Northwest
...O'Hara is well thought of by his peers, among them respected Time-Life photographer Harald Sund who says of his work, "his work sings".