"Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . ."

-- John Muir

#Heart Quotes #Tree Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“It's nice to be important but it's even more important to be nice. I grew up in a world where there were a lot of big physical guys and woman so it's always important to be nice to me.”
“Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.”
“That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.”
“As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas.”
“In nearly all the matters in which the Pan-German movement was wanting, the attitude of the Christian Social Party was correct and well-planned.”
“I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.”
“Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two boys realize they'd die for one another, that each cares more for the other than he does for himself, and it lasts usually until a second love comes on the scene, because most hearts aren't big enough to love more than one person like that.”
“And though circuitous and obscureThe feet of Nemesis how sure!”

Source : William Watson (1899). “The Collected Poems of William Watson”

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