Galen Quotes

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

Laziness breeds humors of the blood.

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

(Wine is) the nurse of old age.

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

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

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

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

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

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

When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience

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

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

The chief merit of language is clearness.

Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.

After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.

Confidence and hope do more good than physic.

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

The physician is only nature's assistant.

The best physician is also a philosopher.

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

If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?