Brian Skerry famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
-- Brian Skerry

#Ocean #Years #Lasts
There's still a lot of people out there who think the only good shark is a dead shark.
-- Brian Skerry

#Ocean #Thinking #Sharks
The Internet and my web site have grown to become essential components of my business. The expertise and support that LuxSci continually delivers is crucial to maintaining the worldwide contact I need to succeed. LuxSci provides peace of mind!
-- Brian Skerry

#Support #Mind #Essentials
The oceans are in trouble. There are some serious problems out there that I believe are not clear to many people. My hope is to continually find new ways of creating images and stories that both celebrate the sea yet also highlight environmental problems. Photography can be a powerful instrument for change.
-- Brian Skerry

#Photography #Powerful #Believe

On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly in its path.
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.
My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust upon us, willy-nilly. Like The Marine, I suddenly understood. Mom and I weren't trespassing. This house was ours. This view was ours. And that seemed as absurd and unreal as the stories Sailor Hat had spun for me on the ferry.
Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.
The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.
Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.
Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
Iâ€™m doing pretty well. If you donâ€™t get married, you canâ€™t get divorced. Why couldnâ€™t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?

Brian Skerry famous quotes

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