Gregory Colbert quotes
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“The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.”
-- Gregory ColbertSource : "Ashes and Snow". Documentary, Drama, www.imdb.com. March 05, 2005.
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“Is it only humans that look up with wonder at the stars and the vastness of the universe?”
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“Feather to fire,fire to blood Blood to bone,bone to marrow Marrow to ashes,ashes to snow”
-- Gregory ColbertSource : "Ashes and Snow". Documentary, Drama, www.imdb.com. March 05, 2005.
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“We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others—both human and animal.”
-- Gregory ColbertSource : "Peace and Harmony: The Message of Our Discovery". Photo Magazine, No. 427, March 2006.
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“Letter 1 To the princess of the elephants, I disappeared exactly one year ago. On that day I received a letter. It called me back to the place where my life with the elephants began Please forgive me, for the silence between us has been unbroken for one year. I will never be more of myself than in these letters. They are my maps of the bird path, and they are all that I know to be true.”
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“I have invented nothing. I have simply documented a magical alchemy that I want to share.”
-- Gregory ColbertSource : "Dances With Whales" by Alan Riding, www.nytimes.com. April 22, 2002.
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“When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out.”
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“My imagination has always been inspired by nature’s vision”
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“The stars you see at night are the unblinking eyes of sleeping elephants, who sleep with one eye open to best keep watch over us.”
-- Gregory ColbertSource : "Ashes and Snow: A Novel in Letters". Book by Gregory Colbert, 2005.
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“I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.”
-- Gregory ColbertSource : "Dances With Whales". Interview with Alan Riding, www.nytimes.com. April 22, 2002.
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“When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out. In discovering the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals, I am working towards restoring the common ground that once existed when people lived in harmony with animals.”
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“Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express their relationship with nature. Ashes and Snow is a 21st-century bestiary filled with species from around the world. Nature’s orchestra includes not just Homo sapiens but elephants, whales, manatees, eagles, cheetahs, orangutans, and many others.”
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“If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream time. That's what I'm exploring.”
-- Gregory ColbertSource : "Peerless on the Pier". Town & Country, March 2005.
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