Edward Steichen Quotes
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
Quotes to Explore
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The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.
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Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
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I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
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President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.
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There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.
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I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of'... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating as those in front. It's a bit of a dream come true to be a part of the team in some small way.
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I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
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My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.
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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
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We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.
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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
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Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.
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In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.'
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That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage.
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Poetry is language in orbit.
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Every smart / Is eased in telling.
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The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
