To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
Yann Arthus-BertrandAfter Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.
Yann Arthus-BertrandI never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
Yann Arthus-BertrandNo one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.
Yann Arthus-BertrandThe fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand