Galen Quotes

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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Body Bread Cake Dispose Flower Narcissus Some
Who Are You? What do you want? Where Are You Going? Who do you serve and who do you trust?
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Going Serve Trust Want
When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience
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Commit Environment Human Landscape Message Powerfully Specially Turn View
Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.
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Health Key Look Maximum Nervous System
Laziness breeds humors of the blood.
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Blood Breed Humour Laziness One Liner
After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.
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After Animal Sad Coitus Except Female Human Rooster
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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Activity Body Climb Directly Involve Mean Mind Mountain Nature Observe Philosophy Photograph Photography Some Wood
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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Care Fate Image Keep Message Most Need Powerful Reason Well Write
The best physician is also a philosopher.
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Best One Liner Philosopher Physician
A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.
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Brain Cold Companion Folly Insperable Most
These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message
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Committed Day Deeply Environmental Message Most Natural Photograph
The chief merit of language is clearness.
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Chief Clearness Language Ment
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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Always Bedroom Fifteen Landscape Luckily Mine People Photograph Speak Strongly Years
The physician is only nature’s assistant.
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Assistant Natural Only Physician
If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?
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Come Dream Nightmare Our Sometimes True
Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.
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Employment Essential Happiness Human Nature Physician
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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All Die Drink Except Help Remedy Short Time
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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Bgan Combination Dilute Effective Message Picture Relly Together Unless Word
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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Chief Clearness Distract Know Language Merit Much Nothing Term Unfamiliar
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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Devoid Enslave Even Knowledge Learn Merely Sect Sound Stop
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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Days Distance Emotion exchange Molecule Photograph Sense Spectator Spiritual Thirty
All animals are sad after coitus except the female human and the rooster.
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After Animal Cotius Except Female Human Rooster Sad
Confidence and hope do more good than physic.
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Confidence Good Hope More Physic
(Wine is) the nurse of old age.
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Age Nurse Old Wine

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