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22 quotes by James Balog

James Balog Born (1952-07-15) July 15, 1952 (age 62) Danville, Pennsylvania, U.S. Nationality American Occupation Photographer James Balog (pronounced BAY-log; born July 15, 1952) 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...
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I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

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

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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... →

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Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.

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I'm quite fond of Switzerland. I love Switzerland.

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When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of opposites and together... →

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There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back there and see what's not there any more, it... →

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We are now beyond nature's normal variation in terms of how the atmosphere is composed. Nature did something for a million years. It actually... →

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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.... →

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Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

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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... →

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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.

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Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.

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