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

Galen

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

Galen

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

Galen

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

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

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.

Galen

After coitus every animal is sad, except the human female and the rooster.

Galen

If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?

Galen

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

Galen

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

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.

Galen

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

Galen