“A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.”

When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience

Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.

Laziness breeds humors of the blood.

After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.

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

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

The best physician is also a philosopher.

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message

The chief merit of language is clearness.

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

The physician is only nature’s assistant.

If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?

Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.

All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die.

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

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

Around, around, Companions all, take your ground, And name the bell with joy profound! CONCORDIA is the word we’ve found Most meet to express the harmonious sound, That calls to those in friendship bound.

Tell me, what is hope if not a sweet, sweet companion?

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.

One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave – our own self. Get on good terms with that companion – learn to live with yourself.

You will never feel alone, if you run down the stairs of loneliness; as every solitary step becomes your companion.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

The best companion and helper is admirable morals.