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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience
GalenGalen Laziness breeds humors of the blood.
GalenGalen After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.
GalenGalen 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
GalenGalen 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
GalenGalen The best physician is also a philosopher.
GalenGalen A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.
GalenGalen These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message
GalenGalen The chief merit of language is clearness.
GalenGalen 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
GalenGalen The physician is only nature’s assistant.
GalenGalen If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?
GalenGalen Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.
GalenGalen All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die.
GalenGalen 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
GalenGalen 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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Caught inside my mind trapped between its horrid lines losing precious time.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Some women will have you look at life differently.
Eleni SophiaEleni Sophia The biggest reward often require the largest risks.
Nicole BrownNicole Brown Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.
AstaAsta Late-night conservations, Breathtaking memories, and an endless sky full of unseen dazzling stars. That’s how I want to remember us.
AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel There is someone out there waiting to love you in all the ways you deserve.
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Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet discovered to detect maladjustments quickly.
Ben BagdikianBen Bagdikian Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.
Barbara Ann KipferBarbara Ann Kipfer A good teacher helps you explore the maximum.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder