Bob Walker (photographer) - Quotes From Bob Walker

Quotes From Bob Walker

• "Find something outside yourself that is yourself. Then devote yourself to it with all your heart." Bob Walker, 1991 (Beaver, Christopher, After the Storm: Bob Walker and the East Bay Regional Park District)

• "With the valleys having fallen to development, our beloved hills now feel the onslaught of the bulldozer, and building pads replace the irreplaceable grandeur of our ridges." Bob Walker

• "The moment that someone is driving down the road and suddenly sees a bulldozer or some grading or a house under construction high in the hills where they never imagined development would take place is the moment they individually cross the line and say to themselves 'this has to be stopped.'" Bob Walker (Contra Costa Times 8-27-1990)

• "I've really felt evangelical about making people stop and realize that they're in the middle of a very stunning landscape. It's all around them, and so accessible, but often they've overlooked it because California is loaded with so many superlatives." (December 1992, Diablo magazine.)

• "To involve the public, you have to make each of your pictures a thousand times more spectacular than what you might see on the most exquisite day – otherwise you’ll never convey even one-tenth of what it feels like to be out there on the dullest gray day when nothing’s going on." Bob Walker (Beaver, Christopher, After the Storm: Bob Walker and the East Bay Regional Park District)

• "The fundamental dilemma we face is balancing the needs of our natural systems and lands with the impulse to convert that bounty for short term economic gain." Bob Walker (Beaver, Christopher, After the Storm: Bob Walker and the East Bay Regional Park District)

• "We’ve made great strides: vast systems of preserved open space, and laws to protect our air, water, and wetlands. But the losses are cumulative, and the effects, increasingly devastating. . . . The challenge facing us is clearly great, the odds, no better." Bob Walker, speech, Contra Costa Conservation League Award Ceremony, 1991

• "I’d sit with the dog and watch the light dance on the hills around Diablo and dream a very special dream. Wouldn’t it be nice, I thought, if instead of miles of private land and subdivision threats, all the land between Morgan Territory and these beautiful foothills were ours as permanently protected public land." Bob Walker (Beaver, Christopher, After the Storm: Bob Walker and the East Bay Regional Park District)

• "The lesson is quite clear: by joining the knowledge and talents of everyone, weekend hikers, armchair enthusiasts, average citizens and environmental leaders, old groups and new, we can prevail." Bob Walker (Beaver, Christopher, After the Storm: Bob Walker and the East Bay Regional Park District)