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Our Thirsty Planet

Water is the driving force of all nature.
– Leonardo da Vinci

Kenya
Nepal

Clean water, the essence of life and a birthright for everyone,
must become available to all people now.
– Jean-Michel Cousteau

Kabul, Afghanistan

Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.
– Mikhail Gorbachev

Baluchistan, Pakistan
Tibet
Mumbai, India

Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium.
There is no life without water.

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Afghanistan
Rajasthan, India
Omo Valley, Ethiopia

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
Loren Eiseley

Nepal
Afghanistan

Water is the soul of the Earth.
– W. H. Auden

India
Tibet

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
– Thomas Fuller

Afghanistan
Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

To understand water is to understand the cosmos,
the marvels of nature, and life itself.

– Masaru Emoto

Paraguay
Afghanistan

Water is being depleted many, many times faster
than nature can replenish it.

– Maude Barlow

India
Afghanistan
Nepal

Steve’s current and upcoming exhibitions:

Steve McCurry: In Search of Elsewhere opens March 4, 2021
at Polka Galerie in Paris, France.

Wabi Sabi: Beauty in Imperfection opens March 1, 2021
at the Musée Barbier-Mueller in Genéve, Switzerland.

Icons currently on display at
Palazzo Sarcinelli in Conegliano, Italy.


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Please take a look at other activities at Steve McCurry Studios
https://linktr.ee/stevemccurry

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The Treasure Chest of Living

 The home should be the treasure chest of living.
– Le Corbusier

Venice, Italy

Mongolia

 Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
– Charles Dickens

Al Hudaydah, Yemen

Home should be an anchor, a port in a storm, a refuge, a happy place in which to dwell …
– Marvin J. Ashton

Dal Lake in Srinagar, Kashmir

Tawi-Tawi, Philippines

Every one of us needs a home. The world needs a home.
There are so many young people who are homeless.
They may have a building to live in,

but they are homeless in their hearts.
That is why the most important practice
of our time is to give each person a home.
– Thich Nhat Hanh

Morocco

Home is any four walls that enclose the right people. 
– Helen Rowland

Afghanistan

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it at home.
– Rumi, (Jalal Al-Din Rumi, 1207 – 1273)

Tibet

 One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
– Margaret Mead

Tibet
Shigatse, Tibet

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts
are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the
head and heart?
– Orison Swett Marden

Svalbard, Arctic

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
–  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Kashmir

My home…It is my retreat and resting place from wars,
I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest
outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
– Michel Eyquem De Montaigne, 1533 – 1592

Omo Valley, Ethiopia
Morocco

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home…
– John Howard Payne

Barcelona, Spain
China

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs,
and returns home to find it.
George Moore

Myanmar

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Please check out this recent interview with Newsweek
about my latest book In Search of Elsewhere.
https://www.newsweek.com/2021/02/05/steve-mccurrys-search-elsewhere-40-years-unseen-images-1563182.html

For more information on what’s going on at Steve McCurry Studios, please check out: https://linktr.ee/stevemccurry