Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.
GALENWhen we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience
More Galen Quotes
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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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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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Confidence and hope do more good than physic.
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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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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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All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die.
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Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!
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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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Who Are You? What do you want? Where Are You Going? Who do you serve and who do you trust?
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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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(Wine is) the nurse of old age.
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The physician is only nature’s assistant.
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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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