"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in."

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Source : John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.427, Univ of Wisconsin Press

John Muir

#Nature Quotes #Flower Quotes #Adventure Quotes

“Get growing. Back yourself and make mistakes. It's your mistakes and observations that are your greatest tutors.”
“Development requires modification and transformation of the environment... the planet's capacity to support its people us being irreversibly reduced by the destruction and degradation of the biosphere and the need to understand the problem and take corrective action is becoming urgent.”
“Don't do drugs, kids. Stay in school.”
“We don't want to limit ourselves to any specific sound like that was before when we were brought up in classical music.”
“I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.”

Source : "Kevin McKidd: 'For my role in Rome I had to wear a little skirt - my wife liked that...'". www.mirror.co.uk. February 7, 2010.
“Poets are the sense, philosophersÂÂ the intelligenceÂÂ of humanity.”
“Pain is the precursor to change.”
“The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.”

Source : Louis Sachar (2011). “The Cardturner”, p.313, A&C Black

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