Employment is nature’s physician and is essential to human happiness.

— Claudius Galen

 

The best physician is also a philosopher

— Claudius Galen

 

Laziness breeds humors of the blood

— Claudius Galen

 

Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health

— Claudius Galen

 

A god, as I have said, commanded me to tell the first use also, and he himself knows that I have shrunk from its obscurity. He knows too that not only here but also in many other places in these commentaries, if it depended on me, I would omit demonstrations requiring astronomy, geometry, music, or any other logical discipline, lest my books should be held in utter detestation by physicians. For truly on countless occasions throughout my life I have had this experience; persons for a time talk pleasantly with me because of my work among the sick, in which they think me very well trained, but when they learn later on that I am also trained in mathematics, they avoid me for the most part and are no longer at all glad to be with me. Accordingly, I am always wary of touching on such subjects, and in this case it is only in obedience to the command of a divinity, as I have said, that I have used the theorems of geometry

— Claudius Galen

 

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

— Claudius Galen

 

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

— Claudius Galen

 

Confidence and hope do more good than physic.

— Claudius Galen

 

Who Are You?

What do you want?

Where Are You Going?

Who do you serve and who do you trust?

— Claudius Galen

 

If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?

— Claudius Galen

 

The best physician is also a philosopher.

— Claudius Galen

 

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

— Claudius Galen

 

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

— Claudius Galen

 

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

— Claudius Galen

 

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

— Claudius Galen

 

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

— Claudius Galen

 

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

— Claudius Galen

 

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

— Claudius Galen

 

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.

— Claudius Galen

 

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