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.

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• Edward Burtynsky:

  I'm working in this very complex set of issues having to do with who we are as a species and how mu

• Edward Burtynsky:

  Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.

• Edward Burtynsky:

  I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't

• Edward Burtynsky:

  These landscapes aren't breaking news or necessarily even illegal. These are intentional, purposefu

• Edward Burtynsky:

  As artists, we can help, visually and intellectually, to make people understand that, at some point

• Edward Burtynsky:

  I no longer see my world as delineated by countries with borders or language, but as seven billion

• Edward Burtynsky:

  In our ephemeral information age, people think we've left behind the stone, bronze, and iron ages.

• Edward Burtynsky:

  I have a fondness for when the landscape becomes surreal.

• Edward Burtynsky:

  Wherever you disrupt water from its natural cycle, there's always a winner and a loser. Whoever is

• Edward Burtynsky:

  No water equals no life. We can have no oil; it's fine. No water - there is no plan b with no water