Schwartzberg Quotes

#1. I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it's through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man.

Louie Schwartzberg

#2. I'm interested in the real world.

Edward Bond

#3. Radio used to be dominated by Tom Petty and artists like that. If Tom Petty came out today, he'd be played on country radio - all that stuff would. I think the genre has opened itself up to more styles of country, and I think that's a good thing.

Charles Kelley

#4. Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next.

Louie Schwartzberg

#5. The sound of a million butterflies flapping their wings is indescribable. It's very heavenly.

Louie Schwartzberg

#6. The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#7. What I want to do with my filmmaking is help kids experience the truth and wisdom of nature no matter where they are, whether or not they have the opportunity to go to a national park.

Louie Schwartzberg

#8. A third of our food comes from pollinating plants.

Louie Schwartzberg

#9. Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.

Louie Schwartzberg

#10. Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.

Alexander Pope

#11. Eighty percent of the information we receive comes through our eyes. And if you compare light energy to musical scales, it would only be one octave that the naked eye can see, which is right in the middle.

Louis Schwartzberg

#12. I've been filming time lapse flowers continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 35 years. To watch them move is a dance I will never get tired of. Their sensual beauty immerses us with color, smell, taste and touch.

Louis Schwartzberg

#13. The right creative act makes its own laws, and always will do.

John Piper

#14. I want viewers to see that everything is connected, even the little guys like pollinators and flowers.

Louie Schwartzberg

#15. When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it's the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down.

Louie Schwartzberg

#16. I love all of the ecosystems - mountains, deserts, rainforests. They're beautiful, and nature has so many different flavors to it.

Louie Schwartzberg

#17. Raffaele slows down and reads it aloud, whispering the words as he goes. "Laetes,

Marie Lu

#18. I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything about nature, but they taught me a lot about gratitude.

Louie Schwartzberg

#19. The 2012 payout will be the lowest in our history: well below 50 percent.

Ennio Doris

#20. Perhaps it was more painful to think of a guilty man than of a dead man.

Albert Camus

#21. Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

#22. Aren't we grateful for our brains, that can take this electrical impulse that comes from light energy and use it to explore our world? Aren't we grateful that we have hearts that can feel these vibrations, in order for us to allow ourselves to feel the pleasure and beauty of nature?

Louis Schwartzberg

#23. What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.

Louie Schwartzberg

#24. With high-speed cameras, we can do the opposite of time lapse. We can shoot images that are thousands of times faster than our vision. And we can see how nature's ingenious devices work, and perhaps we can even imitate them.

Louie Schwartzberg

#25. Basically, the intersection between the animal world and the plant world is where life regenerates itself over and over, billions of times each day. It's the foundation of life on our planet.

Louie Schwartzberg

#26. Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.

John Denver

#27. We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted for the judgment of the representative.

Calvin Coolidge

#28. I like to do films that celebrate life.

Louie Schwartzberg

#29. Kenny G has a Christmas album out this year. Hey, happy birthday Jesus! Hope you like crap!

Norm MacDonald

#30. Always take time to smell the flowers, and let it fill you with beauty, and rediscover that sense of wonder.

Louis Schwartzberg

#31. I'm Jewish and respect the traditions of Judaism, but through all the time I've spent photographing nature, I also have a deep appreciation for the power of the universe. No, not the power of the universe, but just celebrating life.

Louie Schwartzberg

#32. Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.

Louie Schwartzberg

#33. I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

Pearl Cleage

#34. We're giants, and we're unaware of things that are too small for us to see.

Louie Schwartzberg

#35. I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment.

Louie Schwartzberg