The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
GALEN
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
More Galen Quotes
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The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
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If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?
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Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.
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Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.
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Laziness breeds humors of the blood.
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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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(Wine is) the nurse of old age.
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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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Confidence and hope do more good than physic.
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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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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message
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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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After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.
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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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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
GALEN