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I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at what's in front of you.

~Frans Lanting

Topics: Front Involvement Just Knowing Landscape Means Might Person Personal Photograph Requires Subject Think Whatever You Your I Think

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Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. I'd much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners.

~Frans Lanting

Topics: Because Create Economies Going Gold Important Local Miners Much Rather Sustainable Than Tourism Tourists Up

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

~Frans Lanting

Topics: Been Muse Nature Passion

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I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the American West. That was when I learned about the tradition of nature in American photography.

~Frans Lanting

Topics: About American Beauty Became First Holland Interested Learned Nature Overwhelmed Photography States Student Tradition United United States University Visit West

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

~Frans Lanting

Topics: Biodiversity Distant Future Past Points Starts Toward

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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

Topics: Altered Covers Earth Element Force Life Life Is A Like New Own Right Skin

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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

Topics: Different Individuals Lion Mates Members Society Very

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I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many world-class scientists that we're in the midst of an extinction crisis... This time it's us that's doing it.

~Frans Lanting

Topics: Belief Crisis Doing Driven Extinction Interpret Links Many Midst Natural Natural World Our Scientists Time Us Want World World-Class

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The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient.

~Frans Lanting

Topics: Ancient Appear Islands Provide Sense Time Window Young

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My wife says that I become different once I start to work with animals. My movements become different, my mood is different. It involves letting everything fall behind you, becoming intuitive in your dealings with wild creatures in a way that bypasses reason. Sometimes it's more like a dance than anything else.

~Frans Lanting

Topics: Animals Anything Anything Else Become Becoming Behind Creatures Dance Different Else Everything Fall Intuitive Involves Letting Like Mood More Movements Once Reason Says Sometimes Start Than Way Wife Wild Work You Your

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Biography

Nationality: Dutch

Type: Photographer

Born: July 13th, 1951

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