Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

John Muir Quotes

The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: environmentalist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 21, 1838 - December 24, 1914

Topics

Soil Preservation Forests Practical

Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Alone Football Practice Stand Aim

The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.

Song Dead Playing Like Constantly

There's a big difference between industrializing production of tractors and industrializing production of food. We like technology, but we really like technology that allows us to do better what nature does itself.

Nature Technology Food Better Big

I have met a lot of athletes who were on the top of their sport, and then sat around and did nothing. They just didn't know what to do.

Know Nothing Top Just Who Did

I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

Love Music Loved Always Critic Used

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.

Business Money I Am People Looking

I do think, with any beat, it helps to establish a basic level of comfort and cordiality, especially if you plan to ask uncomfortable questions. Sitting down in person for a meal or a coffee can help that.

Coffee Think Questions Help Plan

I think we live a culture that's obsessed with people, you know, 'Celebrities are just like us!' Everything I do except my job is critically analyzed online.

Live Culture Job People Think You

I have to reign myself in a lot.

Myself Reign Lot

Maybe I haven't been tested, but I have no fear of death at all. I was with Allen Ginsberg during the last year of his life, and he called all his friends and said, 'I'm on my way out, and it's kind of exciting.' I see it as kind of exciting, too.

Life Fear Death Friends Year Said

In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make.

Experience Doing You Sometimes More

Playing for the first time in Russia was wonderful, and it's a huge perk of the job to get to experience those different cultures.

Time Experience Job First Time First

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by John Muir