The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
GALENThe chief merit of language is clearness.
More Galen Quotes
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(Wine is) the nurse of old age.
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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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Confidence and hope do more good than physic.
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Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.
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If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?
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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 best physician is also a philosopher.
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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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After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.
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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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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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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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A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.
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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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The chief merit of language is clearness.
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