James Balog

You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.

— James Balog

You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times.

— James Balog

Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.

— James Balog

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

— James Balog

I'm quite fond of Switzerland. I love Switzerland.

— James Balog

Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.

— James Balog

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

— James Balog

At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is…

— James Balog

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

— James Balog

Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been…

— James Balog

When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked…

— James Balog

It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things.

— James Balog

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

— James Balog

This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that.

— James Balog

The problem is almost everybody is just recording the world with home photographic toys, not doing metaphor or ideas. We have a…

— James Balog

Ultimately, we have to ask ourselves an essential spiritual and ethical question: Are we the kind of people who take everything for…

— James Balog

Each of us can and must shift our behavior according to our ability. For some, that means changing diet, shopping locally, or…

— James Balog

When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of…

— James Balog

The scientist-community guy may get a $500,000 grant, and if his equipment works or doesn't work, he still gets a gold star…

— James Balog

I have often thought that my work with wildlife taught me the meaning of patience, and my work with the big trees…

— James Balog

In some cases, I allow the edge of the set, the edge of my own artificial, artistic imposition, to show up because…

— James Balog

There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back there and see…

— James Balog

I was raised a Catholic as a boy and went to a Catholic boys' high school, a private school, and kind of…

— James Balog

Early in my career I discovered that there was something really special about photographing at night that places your mind on the…

— James Balog

I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.

— James Balog

The cumulative effect of each person making a change in his or her own life will make a difference.

— James Balog

The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to…

— James Balog

We as a culture are forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very, very deep connection and…

— James Balog

We are now beyond nature's normal variation in terms of how the atmosphere is composed. Nature did something for a million years.…

— James Balog

We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and…

— James Balog

You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen…

— James Balog

I've been to the Himalayas a half a dozen times and I love it. I'm just kind of tired of going literally…

— James Balog

Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football…

— James Balog

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…

— James Balog

Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it…

— James Balog