A picture worth a thousand words

Is a picture really worth a thousands words? Or does it only have a couple of words with a thousand meaning? Who's to say it could be the same thing? For instance, if we look at the image below. These images shows us more than a thousand words to describe each. I won't go into that much detailed about it, but all I can say in one word is "amazing". How amazing picture can tell us about the world in colors, nature, geographical locations, and so on.