It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world.
Interpretation
Photographers have a responsibility to capture and express the beauty of the natural world.
In this quote, Frans Lanting emphasizes the role of photographers as storytellers of the environment. By capturing images of nature, photographers can raise awareness and appreciation for the world's beauty and fragility, urging viewers to acknowledge their connection to the natural world and take action to protect it.
In practice
During an art exhibit on environmental conservation, this quote can inspire viewers to reflect on how they interact with nature.
I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song.
For nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Summer's lease hath all too short a date.
It's probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it.
I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.
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