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Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.

For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.

I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I'd get locked in on them.

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

I've always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so dialogue-intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.

When you make illustrations, you're supposed to have a subtext; you're not just communicating words - you're actually adding another story altogether.

I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.