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

All of my work comes out of a deep concern for human expansion into the landscape.

One thing that's consistent in all of my work is that these aren't accidents; they're all conscious landscapes. They're all things that we're doing and that we have done through our legal and social systems and structures of capitalism.

I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.