The institution of marriage should be re-examined because of its overwhelming claustrophobia. The odds are stacked against spontaneity and effervescence. It’s an institution that was brought about for the sake of family and children, but biologically, it’s very unnatural. It’s masochism and torture the way it’s been organized. Peter Beard Read Quote
I’m an escapist. I’m not a planner; I’ve never made a decision about anything in my life. The good thing about Africa is that you can escape forever. You can do what you want without someone looking over your shoulder. Peter Beard Read Quote
I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale. Peter Beard Read Quote
I did have a very advanced grandmother, my mother’s mother, who wanted to buy me a camera. My parents wouldn’t let her. Eventually she won, and I got a camera in about 1948, a Voigtlander. Peter Beard Read Quote
I’m for conservation, but it’s mostly a con. That’s the trouble. It’s sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre. Peter Beard Read Quote
