We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
When economic modernizations come in, say goodbye to wildlife.
These magnificent species of Africa - elephants, rhino, lions, leopards, cheetah, the great apes (Africa has four of the world's five great apes) - this is a treasure for all humanity, and they are not for sale. They are not for trade. They need to be valued and preserved by humanity. We all need a global commitment to that.
We did a campaign here with New York Times. We had a great ad: "Today in America, someone will kill an elephant for a bracelet. " We became sensitized in our society. Now there are four or five billion people in Asia who need to get this message. We need to use social media, print magazines, celebrities - anything we can to share this message. It's not cool, it's not okay. You are destroying beautiful animals. You are robbing a continent of its wealth. And you are hurting a lot of innocent people.
In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife still.
There's no space for wildlife; the humans are crowding them out.
A lot of African wildlife is very big. If you're protecting the big stuff, you're usually protecting the small stuff, too.
If you can't jump on board when the ride's going past that's it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.
The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the making of a portrait is all about.
Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map. . . . A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.