The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
GALEN(Wine is) the nurse of old age.
More Galen Quotes
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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message
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The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images
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After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.
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All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die.
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(Wine is) the nurse of old age.
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Laziness breeds humors of the blood.
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Confidence and hope do more good than physic.
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Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.
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The chief merit of language is clearness.
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Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it
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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience
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Who Are You? What do you want? Where Are You Going? Who do you serve and who do you trust?
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I’m exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator
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Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!
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What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I’m not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I’m not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world
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