"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."

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Source : John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

John Muir

#Nature Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Garden Quotes

“In college, I won the Irene Ryan; it's kind of like a collegiate Tony, which got my career going. I was honored. I won a fellowship to the Kennedy Center, and that's where I got my agent.”
“Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.”
“The thing that I always notice that dates a record is the rhythm section. With a good arranger the music can be timeless. But, rhythm can change, because heaven knows, we didn't know rock was going to come in, did we?”
“When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.”
“The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.”
“You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.”
“I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.”

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