"I feel most spiritual when I'm out in the woods. I feel part of nature. Or looking up at the stars. [I used to say] I was an atheist. Now I say, it's all according to your definition of God. According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes."

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Source : "Pete Seeger's Session". Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com. August 2006.

Pete Seeger

#Spiritual Quotes #Atheist Quotes #Stars Quotes

“The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.”
“I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.”
“I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.”

Source : Interview with Kate Ayers, www.bookreporter.com. February 8, 2002.
“From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime . . . this conviction . . . rests on two beliefs, one scientific and one political: (1) there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our present-day science. And we shall only find out what they are if we go out and look for them. (2) it is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of people can escape from their neighbors and from their governments, to go and live as they please in the wilderness.”
“If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If He be something He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing to you.”
“There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.”
“The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates.”
“I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.”

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