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John Muir Quotes

Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Stone Citizen Land Sixty Dust Up

I have agreed to lend my voice to Nature's Guard, an animated series which hopefully will go into production in the near future. The characters are all animals. My voice will be for a character named Longtail.

Nature Future Character Voice Go

What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.

Good Yourself Moving Writing Thrive

Allowing alternative narrative modes in popular entertainment may seem obvious, yet when you turn a pilot into the people upstairs and the main character isn't after what she wants by the top of page two, you get treated as if you've failed at writing.

Character People Writing You Page

Feel what you feel, know what you know, and set your relatives free to do the same.

Free Feel You Know Same Relatives

'Mistresses' is about the lives of four women, each going through different versions of infidelity. Their longtime friendship is what gets them through extremely challenging times.

Friendship Women Through Going Four

If some things don't make me feel good, I stop them. How simple, yet so hard to do.

Good Simple Me Feel Good Feel Stop

I believe sometimes I make some mistakes. And I don't think they are life-threatening mistakes.

Mistakes Believe Think Sometimes

What I do is very theoretical. It won't necessarily have implications for anything anyone is doing tomorrow, yet you know that there's a sense of progress in science, and as we understand more, it just turns out that, somehow, the world evolves with us.

Science Progress Tomorrow World You

I wasn't supposed to be walking with Mark Zuckerberg. I wasn't supposed to be interviewing Romney's sons. Why was I doing it? Because I wanted to survive. I wanted to live. I wanted to earn what it means to be an American.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Live Survive American Walking Doing

I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.

Love Beauty Hair Makeup Glamour Up

I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.

Claudia Rankine

Love Me Language You Sometimes Tell

My parents are strict, but the most important thing they have taught me is to be humble and kind and to always treat others as I would like to be treated myself.

Brooklyn Beckham

Humble Myself Parents Me Treat Kind

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