Quote by John Muir
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though th

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. – John Muir

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The glories of a mountain campfire are far greater than may be guessed…. One can make a day of any size, and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining. – John Muir

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Camping
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Keep close to Natures heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. – John Muir

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environmental
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Natures peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you… while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. – John Muir

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I dont think Ill ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. Its not in my nature. – Ricky Williams

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The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that were looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird. – William Shatner

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[H]e ran, he stopped—he dipped his glowing face into the cloud of blossoming bushes, and would fain lose himself in the humming world between the leaves; he pressed the scratched face into the deep, cooling grass, and hung delirious on the breast of the immortal mother of Spring. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,

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Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature. – Billy Corgan

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There is no Negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution. – Frederick Douglass

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I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someones going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down… Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads. – Garrett Hedlund

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Its to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and thats my method. – Edward Hopper

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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. – Susan Sontag

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