Galen Quotes

You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either.

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.

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

The physician is only nature's assistant.

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

Confidence and hope do more good than physic.

The best physician is also a philosopher.

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

If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?

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

The real secret of happiness is simply this: to be willing to live and let live, and to know very clearly in one's own mind that the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.

I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

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

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

When the magic hour arrives, my thoughts center on light rather than on the landscape. I search for perfect light, then hunt for something earthbound to match with it.

Laziness breeds humors of the blood.

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.

(Wine is) the nurse of old age.

Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much

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

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

The chief merit of language is clearness.

My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.

Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.

The most interesting parts of the natural world are the edges, places where ocean meets land, meadow meets forest, timberline touches the heights.

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.

A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.

...the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.

If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

My first thought is always of light.

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

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

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

Free will is the thing you have to have if you're going to be responsible in this all-or-nothing way. That's what I mean by free will. That's what I think we haven't got and can't have.

Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

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 all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.

The difference between a 'wise guy' and a wise man is plenty!

Sometimes we need to speak oddly to see clearly.

If the American press corps were as concerned about the Tenth Amendment as it has been protecting the First and trying to get rid of the Second, this would be a far different country.

I would be surprised to see the White House scaling back on anything. That would be an admission they are operating from a position of weakness.

You dont have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.

The [Elian] raid... was almost worth it, if only to watch Jesse Jackson...defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the US government on a minority household.

We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.