Nature Photographer Quotes

#1. My youngest son becomes an award-winning nature photographer, and I cannot resist writing poems to his pictures. My daughter loves to cook, though I do not. Yet together, we write a cookbook with fairy tales. And now a second.

Jane Yolen

#2. I'm a big fan of 'National Geographic', the magazine and the channel. Anything to do with the natural world. For years, when I was younger, I was convinced I would be a nature photographer, but that didn't pan out.

Tom Weston-Jones

#3. Which just goes to show that my cat has considerably more sense than me.

Jim Butcher

#4. "Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach nature in a spirit of inquiry, of communion, instead of with the saucy swagger of self-dubbed "artists"."

Edward Weston

#5. The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.

Ansel Adams

#6. I have often photographed when I am not in tune with nature but the photographs look as if I had been. So I conclude that something in nature says, 'Come and take my photograph.' So I do, regardless of how I feel.

Minor White

#7. For a feature in next month's issue of Prog magazine, the photographer spent many hours setting up a photo shoot of me with part of my music collection in my writing office. Since I do most of my writing outside in nature, we felt this shot was most representative.

Kevin J. Anderson

#8. Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. The presence of angels is an announcement of Paradise.

Victor Hugo

#10. I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, 'Oh, I'm running around town and people are taking my picture', while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed.

Christina Hendricks

#11. At IMVU, we opened up our board meetings to the whole company.

Eric Ries

#12. The poem is a confession of faith.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#14. Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge of things that can't be found.

Frederick Sommer

#16. By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't want to know. All I wanted was to hold my assumptions to the light, and to watch them sparkle in their facets, as all sham gemstones do.

Darin Strauss

#17. Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours.

Alain De Botton

#18. Art is images you carry. You cannot carry nature with you, but you carry images of nature. When you go out to make a picture you find you are moved by something which is in agreement with an image you already held within yourself.

Frederick Sommer

#19. Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#20. We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness
the eighth beatitude.

Blaise Pascal

#21. I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.

Imelda May

#22. Even the most amazingly talented photographer could not have been able to catch splendid photos without the amazing talent of nature which creates splendid things!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. I do not understand how you know you only have one life if you have never died, because if you have never died, then you cannot possibly know if you would go on living a second life, or go on living no more lives.

Cassandra Kemper

#24. For by doing these things the gates of hell shall not prevail against you; yea, and the Lord God will disperse the powers of darkness from before you, and cause the heavens to shake for your good, and his name's glory

Harold B. Lee

#25. In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and a visionary. Patient accumulation of facts and then speculation about their meaning is the nature of authorship in both mediums.

Peter C Bunnell

#26. Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

Robert Adams

#27. There wasn't a Scottish nationalist MP elected at any general election when we were outside the E.U.

Michael Gove