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
GALENWhat 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
More Galen Quotes
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After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.
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All animals are sad after coitus except the female human and the rooster.
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Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.
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Confidence and hope do more good than physic.
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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 chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
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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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The physician is only nature’s assistant.
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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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If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?
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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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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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The 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
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