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John Muir Quotes

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

John Muir

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Day Space Sun Wind Trees Heaven

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

Stanley Hauerwas

Good Religion Creation Citizen Civil

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.

Steven Bochco

Beautiful Brain Logic You Emotional

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.

Slavoj Zizek

Sad Blessing Socialism Think Lesson

In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I got an electric guitar.

Tommy Ramone

Music Myself School High School High

And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.

Joseph Hall

Myself Worst Low Would Worse Some

I always wanted to win. Everyone has a bit of that in them, but I have even more of a will to win. Sometimes I might go overboard, whereas there are others who, yes, they want to win, but if they don't, it's no big deal for them.

Diego Costa

Win Go Sometimes Want Will Others

I'm a very research-, homework-oriented person.

Drew Barrymore

Research Person Very

If you're betting all the time, everything is just another bet. You don't even think about the money after you've made the arrangements. You're used to it.

Bobby Riggs

Time Money Think You Everything

In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years. We've learned a lot from it. If kids grow it and cook it, they eat it.

Alice Waters

Kitchen Grow Garden Classroom Eat

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

Marianne Williamson

Power World Illusion Lost Will

I'm interested in a lot of different sounds and types of music.

Lykke Li

Music Different Interested Sounds

My grandmother had a courtyard of animals, like goats and chickens. She made ricotta cheese, cooked with potatoes warm from the garden, grew everything from beans to wheat. It was simple, seasonal food, and we all ate what was produced 10 miles from where we lived. It was that way for centuries.

Lidia Bastianich

Food Simple Warm Garden Cheese Way