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
GALENI’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
GALENConfidence and hope do more good than physic.
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
GALENThe chief merit of language is clearness.
GALENWhat 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
GALEN(Wine is) the nurse of old age.
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.
GALENThose who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!
GALENThese days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message
GALENAfter coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.
GALENLook to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.
GALENEmployment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.
GALENLaziness breeds humors of the blood.
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
GALENA cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.
GALENWhen we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience
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