"He is likely to remain the one historian of the Sierra; he imported into his view the imagination of the poet and the reverence of the worshipper.... William Kent, during Muirâ€™s life, paid him a rare tribute in giving to the nation a park of redwoods with the understanding that it should be named Muir Woods. But the nation owes him more. His work was not sectional but for the whole people, for he was the real father of the forest reservations of America."

-- Robert Underwood Johnson

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“You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.”

Source : "Roger Vadim dies". The Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2000.
“Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.”
“I enjoy doing fun things outdoors with my son to stay in shape. We like camping together. After a weekend in the woods, I'm sorer than after a week at the gym!”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.”
“I'm convinced that the greatness that matters more is the greatness people achieve through helping each other, through collaborating, more than the greatness that's achieved by grabbing all you can or getting all you can or building all you can.”
“The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions.”

Source : "Secretary Moniz Emphasizes 'Innovation Agenda' To Stop Climate Change". "All Things Considered", wamc.org. December 7, 2015.
“Flying from the United States to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.”
“It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which science is put, in resolving the many public policy questions that scientific discoveries constantly force upon us.”

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