It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world.

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at whats in front of you.

A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.

Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin.

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.

Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.

Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.

Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. Id much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners.

The woman, who is not the wife, has no right to receive the seed of the man, because it is the man and not the woman, who has to bear the responsibility for his seed

Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.

I think it would be interesting to know about the Federal Reserve. I think we should audit the Federal Reserve - it's taxpayer's money that's being used there.

To have a certain new eight-and-a-hal f-minute-old light from the sun-to feel it physically, almost as we taste things-this is where you can work with light like that.

I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.

Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.

Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.

I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.