James Balog

You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times.

Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.

At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left.

There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back there and see what's not there any more, it does something to the heart. It makes you realise it's possible for a gigantic natural element to just disappear.

The scientist-community guy may get a $500,000 grant, and if his equipment works or doesn't work, he still gets a gold star for doing the science experiment. For me, there is no merit in anything for doing an experiment; I have to go home with pictures.