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.
More Galen Quotes
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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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The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
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The chief merit of language is clearness.
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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message
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The best physician is also a philosopher.
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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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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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He 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.
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(Wine is) the nurse of old age.
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