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Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Yann Arthus-Bertrand FRSGS (born 13 March 1946 in Paris) is a French photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist.

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I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for National Geographic, and they gave us a lot of film.

Film, Gave, National Geographic, Pictures, Used

To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.

Life, Life Is, Men, Professional, Succeed, Success

An image of the earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness

Beauty, Consciousness, Earth, Knowledge, Landscape, People

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

Lions, Patience, Penetrates, Photography, Taught

The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.

1992, Air, Ground, Impact, Men, Turning

Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.

Animal, Children, Make, Thing, Thinking, Tragic

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.

Art, Photographer, Photography, Witness

The trust we build over the years if of tremendous help to me when I start in a new project and need to find associates.

Associates, Helping, Needs, Start, Trust, Years

It's time to come together. We all have the power to change, so what are we waiting for?

Come, Power, Power To Change, Time, Together, Waiting

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

Lose, Obsession, Opportunity, Speak

No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.

Awaken, Birth, Environmentalist, Path, Travels

I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.

Lions, Photography, Professor, Realised, Writing

The key of 'The Earth from Above,' and of 'Home' is to show the beauty of the planet, and thereby to promote love for it.

Earth, Home, Keys, Love, Thereby

After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.

Expect, Helicopter, House, New Orleans, Pilots, Saved

One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.

Believe, Fishing, Gone, Sea