Susan Minot Quotes

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

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.

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.

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.

Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.

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'd really likely to shoot wildlife documentaries. I watched so many of those as a child, and I'm quite into wildlife and love photography as well, so that's something I'd like to do.

I think I wanted to be a nature show host since I was a little kid.

I'm a huge fan of the Nature Channel programs.

Steve was so wonderful to bring wildlife into our living rooms and let us see that animals we used to be afraid of are so important.

I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them.

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.

Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

The most exciting thing in England is a pigeon or foxes, which isn't very interesting to watch because everyone knows what they do. But I've taken pictures of them. Just for practice.

I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.

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.

I'd like to go on a hardcore safari in Africa, something off the beaten track with anti-poaching people and camping out in the savannah.

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

'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of'... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating as those in front. It's a bit of a dream come true to be a part of the team in some small way.

I'm a big fan of David Attenborough, who I think is the most adventurous of the nature program presenters.

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

I've always felt like an artistic person. I can't draw or paint or sculpt. I never really had technical skills, but I've always felt like I appreciate really beautiful things, and part of taking a good photograph is being able to recognize beauty.

It's so fantastic that Prince William has championed African wildlife. He's putting his back into it - and one thing the royal family is brilliant at is getting people to cough up.