38 Quotes by Nigel Dennis

For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they may never get to see a real lemur in Madagascar. I thought this was great and it really meant a lot to me.

I should point out that I have not worked for National Geographic on assignment - they have merely used my stock agency pics from time to time.

I very quickly discovered photography suited me better - somehow I could get things to work on film, that simply did not look right canvas or paper.

Rather ordinary really - I grew up in the UK, was terribly bored at school (and I have to admit rather rebellious, but this was the late sixties!), but got as far as passing A levels..

But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex.

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

[Agatha Christie] is fond of quoting the witty wife who once said, 'an archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. Christie's husband, Max Mallowan, was an archaeologist.

Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

Close encounters are bad. Bad for the animal, as it causes stress, and bad for me for exactly the same reason.