“All animals are sad after coitus except the female human and the rooster.”

After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.

What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I’m not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I’m not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images

The best physician is also a philosopher.

A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message

The chief merit of language is clearness.

Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it

The physician is only nature’s assistant.

If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?

Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.

All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die.

The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

I’m exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator

We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.

But I must go, and I must do this thing, because my Lord will have it so. Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!

We always go out looking for live music after our shows.

Emirates Stadium should be named after Arsene Wenger.

You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone’s tired, things get on top of them.

“After 17” is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that’s kind of where I’m at in that part of my life.

Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

George Harrison: The day after the Blue Angel audition.