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John Muir

"I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news"

Source : John Muir, S. Hall Young (2015). “THE ALASKA ACCOUNT of John Muir: Travels in Alaska, The Cruise of the Corwin, Stickeen & Alaska Days with John Muir (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs and Wilderness Essays from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, The Mountains of California, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Picturesque California, Steep Trails”, p.469, e-artnow

John Muir

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“Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.”
“All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.”
“It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you.”
“Collage is more than just an art style. Collage is all about bringing different elements together. Once you form a sensibility about connection, how different elements relate to each other, you deepen your understanding of yourself and others.”
“When I walk down the boardwalk,people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.”
“Brody cannot believe the size of the creature, and with a classic, practical understatement tells Quint his assessment: You're gonna need a bigger boat. Awestruck, they all view the full-sized, massive shark circling the boat. Quint estimates it is 25 feet long: Three tons of him.”
“Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving”
“A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.”

"I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news"

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