“Who Are You? What do you want? Where Are You Going? Who do you serve and who do you trust?”

The best physician is also a philosopher.

A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message

The chief merit of language is clearness.

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

The physician is only nature’s assistant.

If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?

Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.

All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die.

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

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

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

All animals are sad after coitus except the female human and the rooster.

Confidence and hope do more good than physic.

(Wine is) the nurse of old age.

Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.

Preaching means to awaken the real inclination to serve God.

To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.

Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color.