The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
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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If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?
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Confidence and hope do more good than physic.
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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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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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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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Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.
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All animals are sad after coitus except the female human and the rooster.
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(Wine is) the nurse of old age.
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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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After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.
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Laziness breeds humors of the blood.
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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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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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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message
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The physician is only nature’s assistant.
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