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

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.

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.

You are only a prisoner when you surrender.

God’s existence is reaffirmed once we fall in with another.

Our task is not to yield to the pressure of our environment

Your experiences in the causal dimensions will give you knowledge of time, space, dimensionality and what lies beyond all these things.

People are innocent till proven otherwise. All people are.

What ends up happening is people form images and the image they form is, in some ways, what they want it to be. The idea of trying to correct the image is something I'm not interested in doing.

The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.

Never underestimate the power of an encouraging word.

Fashion people think that the careful Nice companies are boring beyond measure. (Nice people think fashionistas look silly and should Get A Life).

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.