"Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, "A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them.""

-- John Muir

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“If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!”
“The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.”
“You're dangerous."he says. Why?" Because you make me believe in the impossible." â€” Simone Elkeles (Rules of Attraction)”
“The massive quantities of radiation that would be released in a war fought with nuclear weapons might, over time, cause such great changes in the human gene pool that following generations might not be recognizable as human beings.”

Source : Helen Caldicott (1980). “Nuclear madness: what you can do”
“What we want is for people to know that you can get affordable health care and most young Americans, they're not covered and the truth is they can get coverage all for what it costs to pay your cell phone bill.”
“The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.”

Source : Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (2009). “The Complete Collected Works of Dr. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (Hardcover Edition)”, p.456, Seed of Life Publishing
“Life is bendable to our will more than we know. In fact, that's the deal. If we don't know that life bends to our will, it will not. So the trick is to know that life is on our side -- and but awaits our command.”
“I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.”

Source : Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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