“Nggak semua orang bisa diam di dalam batang kayu dua jam untuk memotre...” — Dee Lestari Quote

“Nggak semua orang bisa diam di dalam batang kayu dua jam untuk memotret buaya dari jarak dekat. Kalau kamu nggak ambil foto ini, bagaimana kita bisa tahu rasanya kontak mata dengan buaya? Nggak semua orang bisa tahan berbulan-bulan di Arktik mengintil beruang kutub. Kalau nggak ada yang melakukannya, bagaimana orang di belahan dunia lain bisa tahu betapa penting dan indahnya beruang kutub? Bagi saya, fotografi wildlife adalah jembatan bagi orang banyak untuk bisa mengenal rumahnya sendiri. Bumi ini. I see our profession as an important bridge that connects Earth and human population. We're the ambassador of nature”

“...a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention...”

“Siting and thinking both are different.”

“In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther over the world's rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys the rest, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for each other, and for our life together here. This is given. It is not learned.”

“It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.”

“The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.”

“I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky.”