The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
GALENLuckily, 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
More Galen Quotes
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Confidence and hope do more good than physic.
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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message
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If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?
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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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(Wine is) the nurse of old age.
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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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A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.
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After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.
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Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.
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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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All animals are sad after coitus except the female human and the rooster.
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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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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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