As artists, we can help, visually and intellectually, to make people understand that, at some point, we have to accept that it is our collective impact that is putting the whole planet in jeopardy.

In our ephemeral information age, people think we've left behind the stone, bronze, and iron ages. But they're all still going on - we use tonnes of this stuff every day. You just have to look.

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 Quotes