James Balog Quotes

James Balog — American Photographer born on July 15, 1952,

James Balog is an American photographer whose work explores the relationship between humans and nature. Since the early 1980s Balog has photographed such subjects endangered animals, North America’s old-growth forests, and polar ice. His work aims to combine insights from art and science to produce innovative, dynamic and sometimes shocking interpretations of our changing world... (wikipedia)

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that.

Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it.

We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When big geophysical events happen - a huge earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption - we're reminded of that.

Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.

James Balog Quotes

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