Joel Sartore Quotes

#1. It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save species, we're actually saving ourselves.

Joel Sartore

#2. The most memorably photos are layered, in good light, and have something really ineresting going on in them. If you can get all three elements into a single frame, now you're talking.

Joel Sartore

#3. We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.

Robert Frost

#4. I think people understand that if you're going to have a successful economy, you need people's potential to be realized. That means education. It means university education, sure, but it also means training, apprenticeships and various kinds of skills diplomas that we know are necessary.

Justin Trudeau

#5. Travel is the best investment you can make in yourself. It teaches you that there are many ways to live a good, fulfilled life. It broadens your world view, yet makes you appreciate home all the more.

Joel Sartore

#6. There's no more important mission, because it's folly to think that we can doom wildlife to oblivion and believe humans will be just fine. That's a world I hope to never lay eyes upon.

Joel Sartore

#7. Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and forgiveness and obedience to your will can be transformed.

Hannah Hurnard

#8. Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.

Rene Descartes

#9. The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer coming at it in the background.

Joel Sartore

#10. It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.

Guy Finley

#11. [My work as a photographer is a] mission to document endangered species and landscapes in order to show a world worth saving.

Joel Sartore

#12. I feel like making music because - and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record - there's more of myself in it.

Zooey Deschanel