"I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do."

-- John Muir

#Happiness Quotes #Nature Quotes #Travel Quotes

“I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.”
“I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.”
“You don't have to do a lot of quantity. It's the quality that counts.”
“People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.”
“We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.”
“More than 48 million men and women have served America well and faithfully in military uniform.”
“The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions.”

Source : John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman
“Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.”

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