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“When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.”

— James Balog

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

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

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Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it.

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

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

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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 a gigantic natural element to just disappear.

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