Wild Things
“If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.” - Steve Irwin
Landscape
“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.” ― Ansel Adams
Three Little Birds
“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.” ― J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird
Cities
“A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.” ― Rasmenia Massoud, Broken Abroad
Costa Rica
"Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul. The inhabitants of my small country, Costa Rica, have realized those words by Erasmus. Mine is an unarmed people, whose children have never seen a fighter or a tank or a warship." Oscar Arias
Dolomites
"Each mountain in the Dolomites is like a piece of art" - Reinhold Messner
Ireland
“I love Ireland. I feel very at peace there. It’s just magical and beautiful.” – Eva Green
Botsuana and Namibia
"If I have ever seen magic, it has been in Africa" — John Hemingway
Germany
“Germany’s fascinating. It’s a really rich landscape to film and dramatise” - Claire Danes
Scotland
"Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands forever I love." - Robert Burns, “My Heart’s in the Highlands”
Uganda
"Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them" — Miriam Makeba
Birds Costa Rica
“Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.” ― Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds
Birds Botsuana and Namibia
“Birds were created to record everything. They were not designed just to be beautiful jewels in the sky, but to serve as the eyes of heaven.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun
Birds Uganda
“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” ― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Birds Europe
“The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly.” ― Israelmore Ayivor
Edinburgh
"I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home" - Alan Rickman
Budapest
“I love Budapest for all the right reasons – architecture (especially art nouveau), romance (particularly the views from the bridges) and sticky apricot jam – and some of the wrong ones, too – killer pálinka (fruit brandy), rickety trolleybuses, and spending way too much time in the Turkish baths. ” - Steve Fallon (Lonely Planet)
Rome
“Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.” - Saint Venerable Bede
Cologne
"No woman is perfect however those from cologne are pretty close." - Unknown
Berlin
“Berlin is the newest city I have come across. Even Chicago would appear old and gray in comparison.” – Mark Twain
Other Cities
“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.” ― Charlotte Eriksson
Wildlife Namibia and Botsuana
"If we do not do something to prevent it, Africa's animals, and the places in which they live, will be lost to our world, and her children, forever." - Nelson Mandela
Wildlife Uganda
“The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.” - Diane Fossey
Wildlife Costa Rica
"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends." - Maya Angelou
Wildlife Europe
“Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.” ― Steve Irwin