Zvonimir Balog Quotes

With children, promises are pinky sworn solemn, and unbreakable. They mean something. ~ Cyn Balog

Oh, hell, he'd look hot in a chicken suit. ~ Cyn Balog

And then I went back to face the future memories that had been flapping around in my mind like wounded birds. ~ Cyn Balog

Hans and Christian just stare at me, faces grim. All I can think of is how awesome it would be if my name were Andersen. ~ Cyn Balog

It was almost as if my screwing everything up was beyond my control, destined, written in the stars. ~ Cyn Balog

You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times. ~ James Balog

It's amazing how a conversation between two moms ends up sounding like a battle between people with Tourette's. ~ Heather Balog

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception. ~ James Balog

Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world. ~ James Balog

I'm not just one flavor. You're not either. So it all comes down to which 'you' you want to show the world. ~ Cyn Balog

Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic. ~ James Balog

The cumulative effect of each person making a change in his or her own life will make a difference. ~ James Balog

I personally spend the majority of my time by far on outreach and education and fundraising and administration. ~ James Balog

This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that. ~ James Balog

The problem is almost everybody is just recording the world with home photographic toys, not doing metaphor or ideas. We have a photographic culture that's not conditioned to think in terms of symbol. ~ James Balog

I stare at Hans.
Hans is shaped like an industrial-sized refrigerator.
His hands are like cinder blocks.
He should not be afraid of a little thing like the ocean. ~ Cyn Balog

Each of us can and must shift our behavior according to our ability. For some, that means changing diet, shopping locally, or putting solar panels on their house. For others, it means using their voice to inspire transformative change. ~ James Balog

What's with the strange clothes?"
I smile through my labored breath, pleased to be making progress. "Where I'm from, you'd be the one dressed strangely."
Thank goodness, she slows a bit. "And what planet is that again?"
"Er. Canada. ~ Cyn Balog

It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things ... The Earth is the measure of all things. ~ James Balog

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry. ~ James Balog

I'm quite fond of Switzerland. I love Switzerland. ~ James Balog

Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine. ~ James Balog

Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it. ~ James Balog

Twenty minutes later, I walk out of Melinda's hotel with a plate of finger sandwiches, a bag of prostitute clothes, and a weird wedge on my head that makes me look like you could tip me upside down and fill it with cream of mushroom.
I need another donut. ~ Cyn Balog

We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When big geophysical events happen - a huge earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption - we're reminded of that. ~ James Balog

Ultimately, we have to ask ourselves an essential spiritual and ethical question: Are we the kind of people who take everything for ourselves and leave nothing for others, or do the angels of our better nature still live? I believe the angels are still alive. ~ James Balog

There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back there and see what's not there any more, it does something to the heart. It makes you realise it's possible for a gigantic natural element to just disappear. ~ James Balog

We as a culture are forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very, very deep connection and contact with nature. You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it. ~ James Balog

We are now beyond nature's normal variation in terms of how the atmosphere is composed. Nature did something for a million years. It actually goes back a lot further than that, but the ice core records show a million years. So, nature has this normal oscillation within this zone, and all of a sudden, we're forty percent outside that zone. ~ James Balog

In some cases, I allow the edge of the set, the edge of my own artificial, artistic imposition, to show up because I don't want to hide from that. I want to acknowledge that there is a living human and a living eye and a living mind and a living heart responding to what's going on out there. ~ James Balog

I've got at least two major project ideas that I've been chewing on for several years in my head and I've been trying to resist them both. But I have learned over the years that when they don't go away and they're still in there, you probably have to resign yourself to the fact that you're going to do something about them. ~ James Balog

I've been to the Himalayas a half a dozen times and I love it. I'm just kind of tired of going literally twelve time zones around the world. I would rather go six time zones and get to Iceland or whatever it is. ~ James Balog

I was raised a Catholic as a boy and went to a Catholic boys' high school, a private school, and kind of drifted away, candidly, in my latter teen years. I consider myself deeply spiritual but not in an institutional, religious kind of a way. In Catholicism, we're surrounded by these images of martyrdom and doing penance and doing some suffering to achieve what you're trying to achieve. And I certainly embedded that in my psyche and I have lived that very effectively. ~ James Balog