Galen

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The physician is only nature's assistant.
- Galen
Collection: Physicians
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Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.
- Galen
Collection: Health
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All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die.
- Galen
Collection: Health
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Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!
- Galen
Collection: Inspirational
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Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.
- Galen
Collection: Keys
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The best physician is also a philosopher.
- Galen
Collection: Physicians
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After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.
- Galen
Collection: Sex
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If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?
- Galen
Collection: Dream
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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
- Galen
Collection: Powerful
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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.
- Galen
Collection: Flower
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Laziness breeds humors of the blood.
- Galen
Collection: Blood
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The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
- Galen
Collection: Merit
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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
- Galen
Collection: Careers
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(Wine is) the nurse of old age.
- Galen
Collection: Wine
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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
- Galen
Collection: Spiritual
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All animals are sad after coitus except the female human and the rooster.
- Galen
Collection: Sex
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A cold and moist brain is an inseparable companion to folly.
- Galen
Collection: Brain
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The chief merit of language is clearness.
- Galen
Collection: Merit
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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience
- Galen
Collection: Tunes
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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
- Galen
Collection: Artist
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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message
- Galen
Collection: Artist
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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
- Galen
Collection: Philosophy