James Balog Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
James Balog quotes and sayings page 2 (photographer). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 22 we have.
“When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.”
“It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things.”
“Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.”
“You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long time in the future. What we don't realize is that they actually can happen right now. Right here, right now, while we're alive, in our own hours and days and months and years.”
“At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left.”
“Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.”
“Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine.”
“I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.”
“Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by the climate deniers who have a vested interested in maintaining the status quo. That includes certain industrial interests, financial interests and political interests.”
“The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it's dying.”
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