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The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it's dying.

I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos.

Here's the thing about me: I have a job to do and I do it.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that.

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.

I have so many ideas while I'm driving.

I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.

When you're in elementary school, you get these amazing assignments, like to come up with your own animal, come up with your own city, come up with your own planet, what do the people look like; you're very much encouraged to be as imaginative as possible.

When I've had enough of words, I go out into the city for a long walk; sometimes I'll go out walking for several miles. And I'll just take photographs and hope for something striking or unusual to happen that I can organize into a picture frame.