Gregory Colbert Quotes

• The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.

  Gregory Colbert

  Song, Whales, Answers

  "Ashes and Snow". Documentary, Drama, www.imdb.com. March 05, 2005.

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• We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others - both human and animal.

  Gregory Colbert

  Animal, Empathy, Needs

  "Peace and Harmony: The Message of Our Discovery". Photo Magazine, No. 427, March 2006.

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• The stars you see at night are the unblinking eyes of sleeping elephants, who sleep with one eye open to best keep watch over us.

  Gregory Colbert

  Stars, Sleep, Eye

  "Ashes and Snow: A Novel in Letters". Book by Gregory Colbert, 2005.

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• I have invented nothing. I have simply documented a magical alchemy that I want to share.

  Gregory Colbert

  Want, Share, Alchemy

  "Dances With Whales" by Alan Riding, www.nytimes.com. April 22, 2002.

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• Is it only humans that look up with wonder at the stars and the vastness of the universe?

  Gregory Colbert

  Travel, Stars, Looks

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• Feather to fire,fire to blood
  Blood to bone,bone to marrow
  Marrow to ashes,ashes to snow...

  Gregory Colbert

  Fire, Blood, Snow

  "Ashes and Snow". Documentary, Drama, www.imdb.com. March 05, 2005.

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• When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out. In discovering the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals, I am working towards restoring the common ground that once existed when people lived in harmony with animals.

  Gregory Colbert

  Men, Animal, People

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• My imagination has always been inspired by nature’s vision

  Gregory Colbert

  Imagination, Vision, Inspired

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• Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express their relationship with nature. Ashes and Snow is a 21st-century bestiary filled with species from around the world. Nature’s orchestra includes not just Homo sapiens but elephants, whales, manatees, eagles, cheetahs, orangutans, and many others.

  Gregory Colbert

  Elephants, Eagles, Whales

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• Letter 1
  To the princess of the elephants,
  I disappeared exactly one year ago. On that day I received a letter. It called me back to the place where my life with the elephants began
  Please forgive me, for the silence between us has been unbroken for one year.
  I will never be more of myself than in these letters.
  They are my maps of the bird path, and they are all that I know to be true.

  Gregory Colbert

  Princess, Years, Elephants

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• If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream time. That's what I'm exploring.

  Gregory Colbert

  Dream, People, Cave Paintings

  "Peerless on the Pier". Town & Country, March 2005.

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• I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.

  Gregory Colbert

  Teacher, School, Library

  "Dances With Whales". Interview with Alan Riding, www.nytimes.com. April 22, 2002.

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• When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out.

  Gregory Colbert

  Animal, Men, Snow

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