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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.

~Yann Arthus-Bertrand

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For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've also used planes. Of course, I always have a harness.

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After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.

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An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.

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No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.

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There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.

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One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.

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You know the problem, we don't want to believe what we know.

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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

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I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Photographer

Born: March 13th, 1946

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