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> [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 for doing the science experiment. For me, there is no merit in anything for doing an experiment; I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-balog/the-scientist-community-guy-may-get-a-500-000-grant-and-if-his/)

[James Balog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-balog/)

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## More by 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 survive. When…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-balog/we-still-carry-this-old-caveman-imprint-idea-that-we-re-small-nature/)

[James Balog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-balog/)

> [Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-balog/climate-change-should-not-fundamentally-be-seen-as-a-political-or/)

[James Balog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-balog/)

> [Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-balog/once-upon-a-time-i-was-a-climate-change-skeptic/)

[James Balog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-balog/)

> [I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-balog/i-ve-always-believed-that-photography-is-a-way-to-shape-human/)

[James Balog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-balog/)

> [Ultimately, we have to ask ourselves an essential spiritual and ethical question: Are we the kind of people who take everything for ourselves and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-balog/ultimately-we-have-to-ask-ourselves-an-essential-spiritual-and/)

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> [You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-balog/you-know-i-ve-read-joseph-conrad-s-heart-of-darkness-about-fifteen/)

[James Balog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-balog/)

> [Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-balog/hindsight-can-be-merciless-people-of-any-given-era-often-look-back-in/)

[James Balog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-balog/)

> [It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-balog/it-s-important-to-recognise-that-humans-are-not-the-measure-of-all/)

[James Balog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-balog/)

> [The problem is almost everybody is just recording the world with home photographic toys, not doing metaphor or ideas. We have a photographic culture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-balog/the-problem-is-almost-everybody-is-just-recording-the-world-with-home/)

[James Balog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-balog/)

> [I have often thought that my work with wildlife taught me the meaning of patience, and my work with the big trees taught me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-balog/i-have-often-thought-that-my-work-with-wildlife-taught-me-the-meaning/)

[James Balog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-balog/)

> [When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-balog/when-i-worked-with-wildlife-a-lot-in-the-eighties-and-nineties-i/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-balog/i-ve-got-at-least-two-major-project-ideas-that-i-ve-been-chewing-on/)

[James Balog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-balog/)

> [You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-balog/you-know-we-humans-are-programmed-to-think-that-big-changes-on-the/)

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> [I was raised a Catholic as a boy and went to a Catholic boys' high school, a private school, and kind of drifted away,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-balog/i-was-raised-a-catholic-as-a-boy-and-went-to-a-catholic-boys-high/)

[James Balog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-balog/)

> [Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-balog/climate-change-is-a-really-abstract-thing-in-most-of-the-world/)

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