Galen famous quotes

04-23-2025

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

#Physicians #Essentials #Employment
Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!
-- Galen

#Science #Sound
Who Are You? What do you want? Where Are You Going? Who do you serve and who do you trust?
-- Galen

#Want
Confidence and hope do more good than physic.
-- Galen
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

#Flower #Cake #Two
The best physician is also a philosopher.
-- Galen

#Physicians #Philosopher
After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.
-- Galen

#Sex #Animal #Roosters
The chief merit of language is clearness.
-- Galen

#Merit #Language #Chiefs
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

#Powerful #Writing #Fate
When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience
-- Galen

#Tunes #Landscape #Way
All animals are sad after coitus except the female human and the rooster.
-- Galen

#Sex #Animal #Roosters
Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.
-- Galen

#Keys #Looks #Nervous
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

#Philosophy #Mean #Climbing
Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm
-- Galen

#Running #Light #Mountain
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
-- Galen

#People #Yosemite #World
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it
-- Galen

#Real #Mistake #Looks
I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards
-- Galen

#Running #Editors #Together
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
-- Galen

#Strong #Vision #Emotion
I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing
-- Galen

#Believe #Thinking #Views
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
-- Galen

#Skills #Important #Different
These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message
-- Galen

#Environmental #Messages #Photographer
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

#Years #People #Office
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

#Spiritual #Distance #Emotional
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

#Careers #Together #Messages
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
-- Galen

#Real #Fighting #Forever

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