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.
GALENHe 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.
More Galen Quotes
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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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A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.
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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 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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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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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message
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Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.
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The best physician is also a philosopher.
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The physician is only nature’s assistant.
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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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All animals are sad after coitus except the female human 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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Who Are You? What do you want? Where Are You Going? Who do you serve and who do you trust?
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Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.
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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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