Sometimes you don't know why you're doing something. You're intuitively following, to see where it leads. Edward Burtynsky More Quotes by Edward Burtynsky More Quotes From Edward Burtynsky I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there. Edward Burtynsky city sea time trying I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that's who paid the best. Edward Burtynsky best myself work school I'm working in this very complex set of issues having to do with who we are as a species and how much we can do to the Earth before it starts to buckle under. My work can easily read as an indictment, but I don't see it as that simple a problem. Edward Burtynsky problem simple earth work I no longer see my world as delineated by countries with borders or language, but as seven billion humans living off a single, finite planet. Edward Burtynsky see single language world Wherever you disrupt water from its natural cycle, there's always a winner and a loser. Whoever is the one it's directed towards is the winner, and whoever loses that water is the loser. Edward Burtynsky you winner loser water No water equals no life. We can have no oil; it's fine. No water - there is no plan b with no water. Edward Burtynsky plan fine water life
