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Environmentalist Inspirational Quotes (8206)

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Henry David Thoreau
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Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.
Jimmy Carter
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Have you ever heard of a woman bloody dictator or tyrant? I think not. If there were more women in power, I think we would have more harmony, more engagement and less suffering and less conflict.
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
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Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication factual and expressive.
Ansel Adams
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I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and of course Stieglitz. Stieglitz always considered photography to be an art form and is the father of the creative concepts of the twentieth century.
Ansel Adams
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We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
Ansel Adams
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You don't take a picture, you make a picture.
Ansel Adams
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If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.
Ansel Adams
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I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium.
Ansel Adams
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All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
Ansel Adams
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As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.
Ansel Adams
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Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways.
Ansel Adams
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All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.
Ansel Adams
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I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath.
Ansel Adams
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The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.
Ansel Adams
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I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.
Ansel Adams
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The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
Ansel Adams
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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these.
Ansel Adams
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I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.
Ansel Adams
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Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
Ansel Adams
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The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the portals of the temple ... to enter the wilderness and seek, in the primal patterns of nature, a magical union with beauty.
Ansel Adams
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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
Ansel Adams
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I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a complement of refuse and dust. Sometimes the professional is the worst offender!
Ansel Adams
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We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simplicity of experience in these wild places or we don't. We admit an almost religious devotion to the clean exposition of the wild, natural earth or we don't.
Ansel Adams
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