I like things that don't look like you're in control
It's like life itself
you just learn
how to benefit from accidents
and chances that you take
It's like a puzzle
I try to put in things that enriched your life
If it's an interesting place
or something you want to remember
Could be a cigarette pack, or a poem
There's so many things you can photograph
the motion, the accidents
You know-- I've always thought it was magic
I mean, photos can be magic
if you have a little accident involved
I've gotten to like writing on the photos
It looks like the thought of that time
Tertullian, Leonardo da Vinci, people that know better than us
they all say the same thing
and we do the opposite
They knew that the only creature
that could appreciate all this beauty
comes on the scene, and sure enough
destroys what only he can appreciate
Elephants I did the most with
That's a herd of about three or four-hundred elephants
like a vacuum cleaner
eating everything en route
Tsavo had a die-off of about 35,000
I was there illegally, photographing
I've got the only pictures of the bodies
These issues we're dealing with
the suffocation of the land
the suffocation of diverse nature
the killing of the species is unbelievable
Do you know how many species we've eliminated
just in our lifetime?
It's tragic
The entire ecology of the elephant
is more similar to us than any other animal
What have they done to their habitat?
They ate it
they trampled it
they died
You'd think we would take a hint
from their demise
It's metaphorical, however
because I ran out of place on this board
There's the edge
and they're spilling over
They're absolutely over-jamming it
It's our climate change
It's our emissions
It's our problem
And our excuses, which are bullshit
It does the heart good
to see what nature has made available to us
Beauty takes space, it takes things that work
I like being in touch with what's out there
And luckily, we've got acres here
Nature is the best thing we've got