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
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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All animals are sad after coitus except the female human and the rooster.
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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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Confidence and hope do more good than physic.
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Laziness breeds humors of the blood.
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The chief merit of language is clearness.
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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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If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?
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The physician is only nature’s assistant.
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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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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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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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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message
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