John Quotes

When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.

I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.

I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention.

One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.

Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under a cow.

We live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.

It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything.

The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks and falls eloquent as ever.

The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.

Listen to them! How wholly infused with God is this one big word of love that we call the world!

John Muir, Earth-planet, Universe.

You all have a relative who is an expert even though they really don't know what they're talking about.

Charts are a leading indicator of fundamental analysis

The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined.

In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.

Think globally, act locally, think tribally, act universally.

The future is embedded in the present.

It is in the nature of human beings to bend information in the direction of desired conclusions.

One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

What worries me is that we are increasingly enmeshed in incompetent systems, that is, systems that exhibit pathological behaviour but cant fix themselves.

I don't read, much less follow, the valuations or predictions. I study the numbers.

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

It must be made possible for the one to live vicariously the life of the many from the beginning.

By one Spirit we are all baptised into one body.

On my days off I pick up our chicken's eggs. My wife and I have five chickens called The Spice Girls. Five lovely chicks. And no, we won't be eating any of them for Christmas dinner.

I try not to handle the foreign subjects with my English techniques and preconceptions, but to paint Sydney in Sydney and Tangier in Tangier.

At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time.

No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.

Reports in matters of this world are many, and our resources of mind for the discrimination of them very insufficient

I was a big rugby player and into my motocross, so I lost loads of weight and a rumor went around the town that I had picked up a drug addiction!

Before this I tended to paint figures and put them in an environment. Now I paint an environment to put figures in. It's a subtle difference, but it is a difference. It's something I did naturally.

Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.

If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.

A bowler can make or break a chap.

We shouldn't be put out to pasture just because we've reached somebody's idea of retirement, which was certainly happening in Australia, and I think elsewhere as well.

I think the glue that held Fringe together was the relationships.

The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her.

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.

Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self.

Al-Qa'ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam.

I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

Give yourself some credit for the work you put in with your own two hands. But remember to never forget the people and things that have helped you along the way.

Just know that someone out there always has it worst, and you should try to realize that there really is a lot to look forward to