Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. Id much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold min…

- Frans Lanting

Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.

- Frans Lanting

A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.

- Frans Lanting

Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.

- Frans Lanting

It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world.

- Frans Lanting

Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.

- Frans Lanting

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snap…

- Frans Lanting

Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin.

- Frans Lanting

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

- Frans Lanting