Nigel Dennis Quotes

I first worked on sports photography, and it was until 2002, when I was already 32 years old, that I really started working and enjoying Africa's wildlife.

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in my photographic composition is a means to show the strength and dignity of animals in nature.

I love to photograph the gorgeous landscapes when I travel.

If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.

David Gulden captures animals in all their wonder and intrigue, without glorifying or romanticizing them. He knows Kenya's wildlife intimately, and it shows in the depth of his images. He has an artist's eye, which delivers beauty and transport in every picture.

I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful, wonderful animal pictures. All through the years he's given me copies of these pictures. Well, I have all these gorgeous ones, so I said, 'Tad, I want to do a book with your picture on one side.'

I just can't remember a time when I wasn't involved with animals and wildlife.

I always love going on a safari drive whenever I visit Ulusaba Private Game Reserve in South Africa. I've been fortunate to see so many incredible animals over the years, and each time, it's completely different. Following Ulusaba's pack of wild dogs is my highlight.

Since I was a kid, I inherited my dad's love for animals and wildlife, even for the ones we had around the house in the French countryside, a 'smaller' kind of nature. Then, as I grew up, I looked more deeply into the African continent and its wildlife.

I started photographing amazing African wildlife for my own pleasure. It was like a much-needed antidote to my life in the city, which I was fast becoming allergic to.

What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.

Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to it.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.

I always wanted to be a zoologist. I'm fascinated with animals. I wanted to be a zookeeper.

I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.

Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.

I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.

Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.

I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.

Endangered species are our friends.

My job, my mission, what I have been put on this planet for is to save wildlife.

Tell the president that the buffalo is my old friend, and it would make my heart glad to see a heard once more roaming around.

I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I like to get in that truck and go up in the hills near where I live, in Vegas, and take my camera. That, to me, is Heaven, being out in nature, taking pictures of the wildlife.