Quotes by James Balog

James Balog

Each of us can and must shift our behavior according to our ability. For some, that means changing diet, shopping locally, or putting solar panels on their house. For others, it means using their voice to inspire transformative change.

Mean

Shopping

Voice

Early in my career I discovered that there was something really special about photographing at night that places your mind on the surface of the planet. You’re no longer just a human being walking around in the regular world. You’re a human animal striding around on the surface of the planet that’s out in the middle of the galaxy. We as a culture, we’re forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very deep connection and contact with nature. You can’t divorce civilization from nature. We totally depend on it.

Animal

Divorce

Night

Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine.

Moving

Pace

People

I have often thought that my work with wildlife taught me the meaning of patience, and my work with the big trees taught me the meaning of humility, and my work with the ice has taught me the meaning of mortality.

Humility

Ice

Tree

I personally spend the majority of my time by far on outreach and education and fundraising and administration.

Administration

Fundraising

Majority

I was raised a Catholic as a boy and went to a Catholic boys’ high school, a private school, and kind of drifted away, candidly, in my latter teen years. I consider myself deeply spiritual but not in an institutional, religious kind of a way. In Catholicism, we’re surrounded by these images of martyrdom and doing penance and doing some suffering to achieve what you’re trying to achieve. And I certainly embedded that in my psyche and I have lived that very effectively.

Religious

School

Spiritual

I’ve always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

Perception

Photography

Shapes

I’ve been to the Himalayas a half a dozen times and I love it. I’m just kind of tired of going literally twelve time zones around the world. I would rather go six time zones and get to Iceland or whatever it is.

Iceland

Time Zones

Tired

I’ve got at least two major project ideas that I’ve been chewing on for several years in my head and I’ve been trying to resist them both. But I have learned over the years that when they don’t go away and they’re still in there, you probably have to resign yourself to the fact that you’re going to do something about them.

Ideas

Two

Years

In some cases, I allow the edge of the set, the edge of my own artificial, artistic imposition, to show up because I don’t want to hide from that. I want to acknowledge that there is a living human and a living eye and a living mind and a living heart responding to what’s going on out there.

Eye

Heart

Mind

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Administration

Angel

Animal

Beautiful

Believe

Civilization

Connections

Depends

Differences

Divorce

Doe

Eye

Fundraising

Heart

Home

Humility

Ice

Iceland

Ideas

Majority

Making A Difference

Making Changes

Mean

Mind

Moving

Night

Pace

People

Perception

Photography

Real

Religious

School

Shapes

Shopping

Spiritual

Thinking

Time Zones

Tired

Tree

Two

Voice

Wildlife

Years

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Quotes by James Balog

James Balog

Each of us can and must shift our behavior according to our ability. For some, that means changing diet, shopping locally, or putting solar panels on their house. For others, it means using their voice to inspire transformative change.

Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine.

I have often thought that my work with wildlife taught me the meaning of patience, and my work with the big trees taught me the meaning of humility, and my work with the ice has taught me the meaning of mortality.

I personally spend the majority of my time by far on outreach and education and fundraising and administration.

I’ve always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

I’ve been to the Himalayas a half a dozen times and I love it. I’m just kind of tired of going literally twelve time zones around the world. I would rather go six time zones and get to Iceland or whatever it is.

In some cases, I allow the edge of the set, the edge of my own artificial, artistic imposition, to show up because I don’t want to hide from that. I want to acknowledge that there is a living human and a living eye and a living mind and a living heart responding to what’s going on out there.

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