Gregory Colbert Quotes

#1. I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.

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#2. If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream time. That's what I'm exploring.

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#3. The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.

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#4. We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others - both human and animal.

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#5. Letter 84


An elephant with his trunk raised is a ladder to the stars.

A breaching whale is a ladder to the bottom of the sea.

My photographs are a ladder to my dreams.

These letters are ladders to you.

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#6. My imagination has always been inspired by nature's vision

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#7. Feather to fire,fire to blood
Blood to bone,bone to marrow
Marrow to ashes,ashes to snow

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#8. I have invented nothing. I have simply documented a magical alchemy that I want to share.

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#9. The stars you see at night are the unblinking eyes of sleeping elephants, who sleep with one eye open to best keep watch over us.

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#10. Is it only humans that look up with wonder at the stars and the vastness of the universe?

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