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I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light.

— David Bailey

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

— Alfred Stieglitz

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

— Ansel Adams

People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

— Yoko Ono

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.

— David Byrne

Photography helps people to see.

— Berenice Abbott

I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.

— Galen Rowell

I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to be able to watch them grow.

— Rory Stewart

I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.

— Galen Rowell

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

— Dorothea Lange

✗Opposing Perspectives

So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence.

— Sebastiao Salgado