Quotations About the Earth from the Air Exhibition

thank you for your invaluable work in helping highlight climate change through your powerful and informative exhibition’

Earth from the Air is an extraordinary initiative, in that it challenges each and every person who comes into contact with it. We can't simply manage our way out of today's environmental crisis: we have to respond as much with our hearts and our souls as with our powers of reason. And that's exactly the impact that Earth from the Air has on people.

It is obvious from the public responses to this exhibition that people are deeply touched, moved and most of all challenged by the provocative imagery. It is incredible that what are essentially simple, though stunningly beautiful, aerial snapshots of our world can inspire such complex emotional feelings in people - but they do, and they must if we are to begin to comprehend the state of our planet in a meaningful way and be inspired to do something about it.

What 'Earth from the air' does so effectively is communicate a vision of the world from an unfamiliar perspective (unless you typically spend your time a few hundred feet off the ground!). In seeing our landscape from this angle the forces that shape our planet are laid bare and transparent and human impacts become stark and clear. In essence what the exhibition does is compel the viewer to change their own perspectives and attitudes to their environment, which in the developed world represent some of the key barriers to overcome if we are to develop more sustainably into the future.