"Most acts of assent require far more courage……" — Nigel Dennis
"Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation."
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21 Quotes by Nigel Dennis
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Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.
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Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take…
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For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We…
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A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get…
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Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies,…
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For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances…
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I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.
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I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that?
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So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load…
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I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.
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All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.
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My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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