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

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

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

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.

Galen

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

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

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

Galen

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

Galen

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

Galen

Laziness breeds humors of the blood.

Galen

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

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

Galen