The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
GALENThe combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted
More Galen Quotes
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Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.
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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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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message
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He who has two cakes of bread, let him dispose of one of them for some flowers of the narcissus; for bread is the food of the body, and the narcissus is the food of the soul.
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After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.
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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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A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.
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Confidence and hope do more good than physic.
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(Wine is) the nurse of old age.
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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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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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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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The physician is only nature’s assistant.
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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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All animals are sad after coitus except the female human and the rooster.
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