"I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament."

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Source : "As nature bleeds, Edward Burtynsky gets the big picture" by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. July 06, 2005.

Edward Burtynsky

#Photography Quotes #Years Quotes #Space Quotes

“They actually think I would abandon the Commander. they have no concept of loyalty.”
“You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.”
“Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.”
“Wake up. Get out of your mind. Be present.”
“Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!”

Source : Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.46
“What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.”
“Every moment you spend thinking about the bad stuff pushes that much more of the good stuff away.”
“Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.”

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