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People Quotes by John Muir
- How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining? A…
- Most people are on the world, not in it.
- Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could…
- Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes-…
- Hiking. I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains...the se mountains are our Holy Land, and we…
- Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the…
- Keep in view the common good of the people for all time.
- Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the…
- It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything.
- Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.
- One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of…
- It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
- Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
- Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity...
- The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart…
- Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get---people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep....
- Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like…
- Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time…
- …their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been…
- I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
- Most people are on the world, not in it - having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly…
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle