I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.

An image of the earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.

It's time to come together. We all have the power to change, so what are we waiting for?

Will we be able to imagine a new culture of water?

I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for National Geographic, and they gave us a lot of film.

No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.

The key of 'The Earth from Above,' and of 'Home' is to show the beauty of the planet, and thereby to promote love for it.

I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.

To expect punishment is to suffer it

I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.

It's a challenge to express real life in dramatic terms. In an entirely "made-up" story, you are sometimes overwhelmed by the infinite possibilities.

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

TV is the best babysitter.

Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.

I ski very aggressively, and the angles that I create with my body are similar to some of the male racers.

In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself.

I owe my life to blood donors. They went out, rolled up a sleeve and gave me another chance at life.

As a professor I can't teach writing.