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

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

    Merit   Language   Chiefs  
    Galen (1916). “Galen On the Natural Faculties”
  • 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

  • The physician is only nature's assistant.

  • 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.

    Flower   Cake   Two  
    "Arabian Society In The Middle Ages". Book by by Edward William Lane, 1883.
  • When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience

    Tunes   Landscape   Way  
  • The best physician is also a philosopher.

    Galen, Arthur John Brock (1991). “On the natural faculties”, Loeb Classical Library
  • All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die.

    Health   Doe   Helping  
  • 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

    Artist   Years   People  
  • 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

  • (Wine is) the nurse of old age.

    Wine   Nurse   Age  
  • After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.

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

    Galen, Arthur John Brock (1991). “On the natural faculties”, Loeb Classical Library
  • Who Are You? What do you want? Where Are You Going? Who do you serve and who do you trust?

    Want  
  • 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

    Powerful   Writing   Fate  
  • 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

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

    Keys   Looks   Nervous  
  • If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?

  • The chief merit of language is clearness.

    Merit   Language   Chiefs  
    Galen, Arthur John Brock (1991). “On the natural faculties”, Loeb Classical Library
  • Laziness breeds humors of the blood.

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

    Sex   Animal   Roosters  
  • Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

    "Day's Collacon: an Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations". Book by Edward Parsons Day, p. 223, 1884.
  • Confidence and hope do more good than physic.

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