Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Ansel AdamsRead
Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
Interpretation
We should protect and preserve the environment for future generations, as it is more valuable than money.
Ansel Adams emphasizes the importance of leaving a legacy of natural beauty for our children, urging us to protect the environment as it holds intrinsic value that surpasses material wealth. The quote reflects the idea that once nature is harmed or destroyed, its beauty is lost forever and cannot be regained, encouraging a sense of responsibility towards conservation.
In practice
During a speech on environmental awareness, one might quote Ansel Adams to emphasize the importance of conservation efforts.
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes.
Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
Rain, rain, and sun! A rainbow in the sky!
The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.
This is suicidal... our home is the biosphere. That's a very thin layer of air, water and land where all life exists. It's fixed, it can't grow, and yet we cling to this idea that the economy can grow forever. And it must. Well, it can't.
Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth in her fair page.
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