"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow-mountaineers. Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go..."

-- John Muir

#Heart Quotes #Animal Quotes #Cells Quotes

“A chess tournament disguised as a circus.”

Source : 1964 Of US political conventions. In the National Observer. Quoted in Edwin A Roberts Jr Elections 1964 (1964).
“When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig.”
“You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.”

Source : "Mozart of film music" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.
“I got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year.”
“For the last 16 years, temperatures have been going down and the carbon dioxide has been going up and the crops have got greener and grow quicker. We've done plenty to smash up the planet, but there's been no global warming caused by man.”
“I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.”
“The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice.”
“Pure driving, pure racing, thatÂ´s what makes me happy.”

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