There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back there and see what's not there any more, it does something to the heart. It makes you realise it's possible for… — James Balog Copy Share Image
At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left. — James Balog Copy Share Image
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… — James Balog Copy Share Image
Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by… — James Balog Copy Share Image
I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception. — James Balog Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we have to ask ourselves an essential spiritual and ethical question: Are we the kind of people who take everything for ourselves and… — James Balog Copy Share Image
You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times. — James Balog Copy Share Image
Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted. — James Balog Copy Share Image
It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things. — James Balog Copy Share Image
The problem is almost everybody is just recording the world with home photographic toys, not doing metaphor or ideas. We have a photographic culture… — James Balog Copy Share Image
I have often thought that my work with wildlife taught me the meaning of patience, and my work with the big trees taught me… — James Balog Copy Share Image
When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees,… — James Balog Copy Share Image
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… — James Balog Copy Share Image
