"Hiking. I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains...the se mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them."

-- John Muir

#Land Quotes #Hiking Quotes #People Quotes

“Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.”
“We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.”
“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
“There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.”
“After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.”
“The continued increase in many crime indicators and the fact that the overall crime rate has not seen a marked decrease while the Liberals have been in power is a clear indication that the Liberal approach to combating crime, as on so many other issues, has failed.”
“Love me like a wrong turn on a bad road late at night.”

Source : Kim Addonizio (2000). “Tell me: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.
“Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.”

Source : Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.61, Penguin

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