Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
Florence NightingaleThe symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.
Florence NightingaleThere is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
Florence NightingaleI have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
Florence NightingalePeople say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery.
Florence Nightingale