Frans Lanting Quotes

#1. Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin.

Frans Lanting

#2. Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.

Frans Lanting

#3. Work that only comes from the head isn't any good ... You need to find a way to bring your body into your work ... If we start going through the motions, if we strum a guitar, or shuffle sticky notes around a conference table, or start kneading clay, the motion kickstarts our brain into thinking.

Austin Kleon

#4. I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the American West. That was when I learned about the tradition of nature in American photography.

Frans Lanting

#5. A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.

Frans Lanting

#6. All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most ... .

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in my photographic composition is a means to show the strength and dignity of animals in nature.

Frans Lanting

#8. In other words, despite all of the environmental pressures from my neighborhood and community, I received a different message at home. And that just might have saved me.

J.D. Vance

#9. There are no real start-overs, only start-from-heres.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#10. Live for what you believe in ... and die for it too.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#11. You are a worm who thought himself a serpent just because you slither. But your power was not real, Pliny. It was all a dream. Time now to wake.

Pierce Brown

#12. Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.

Frans Lanting

#13. There are men too gentle to live among wolves.

James Kavanaugh

#14. Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

Frans Lanting

#15. I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many world-class scientists that we're in the midst of an extinction crisis ... This time it's us that's doing it.

Frans Lanting

#16. I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at what's in front of you.

Frans Lanting

#17. Six-year-olds are very wrapped up in their own lives, and that's the way it should be.

Steve Carell

#18. The last time a straight man worked in the fashion industry, we got a fanny pack.

Chelsea Handler

#19. Last year I was 60 lbs.
This year I'm 80 lbs and I grew taller.
YES!

Dreamer Girl

#20. The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient.

Frans Lanting

#21. Dartmouth Winter Carnival opens, proving once again that bitter cold is no obstacle to going completely out of control.

Lisa Birnbach

#22. Close your eyes and stare into the dark.

Cecelia Ahern

#23. Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. I'd much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners.

Frans Lanting

#24. It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world.

Frans Lanting

#25. The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking..

Albert Einstein

#26. If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely.

Drew Houston

#27. Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.

Frans Lanting