Anthropology, Archaeology, Photography +

"He loved his work. And he loved his subjects. And for him working wasn’t just about collecting images. It really was a way of existing in the world – a way of relating to people, a way of understanding the world and maybe improving it,” he said."

"It’s called code switching."

"The tree image is the ultimate team photograph, more like making a movie than a photographer wandering around by himself. It took a couple of years of thinking about it and then was truly a collaborative effort between me, a rope rigging and climbing team, my camera assistant and a technical guru who actually stitched all the images together. I was the director, when we were there actually making the picture I was called “excess baggage.” I like it because it represents nature in a form that I never thought I could capture in a photograph. It goes way beyond even representing trees."

"As dynamic parts of our environment, rivers and their characteristics vary in space and time in response to climatic changes and to man’s activities."

"I know of no landscape anywhere that is more universally appreciated, more visited and walked across and gazed upon, more artfully worked, more lovely to behold, more comfortable to be in, than the countryside of England. The landscape almost everywhere is eminently accessible. People feel a closeness to it, an affinity, that I don’t think they experience elsewhere."

"A Liverpool working-class accent will strike a Chicagoan primarily as being British, a Glaswegian as being English, an English southerner as being northern, an English northerner as being Liverpudlian, and a Liverpudlian as being working class. The closer we get to home, the more refined are our perceptions."

"So, bowing deeply to Lewis Thomas, it seems to me that near the heart of wonder is the simple act of noticing. I plan to pause, look, and notice the little wonders that catch my eye. Because there are a lot of people who do this very well, I’m going to follow the better noticers, the great field scientists, the best artists, photographers, journalists and peer over their shoulders to notice what they have noticed."