John Quotes

Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.

Man has injured every animal he has touched.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally.

All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.

To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the way, for they find it in abundance wherever they chance to be.

He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.

A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep.

Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.

But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.

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 of the people is always right.

You know that I have not lagged behind in the work of exploring our grand wilderness, and in calling everybody to come and enjoy the thousand blessings they have to offer.

I have enjoyed the trees & scenery of KY exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles & miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure?

I always enjoyed the hearty society of a snowstorm.

I've had a great time in South America and South Africa. Indeed it now seems that on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful year of my life.

Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord.

All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.

...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.

I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence... to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.

I made these Sierra trips, carrying only a sackful of bread with a little tea and sugar, and was thus independent and free.

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others

I have precious little sympathy for the selfish propriety of civilized man, and if aware of races should occur between the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathise with the bears.

Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of French, Latin, and English grammars to memory.

My meals were easily made, for they were all alike and simple, only a cupful of tea and bread.

Wherever a Scotsman goes, here goes Burns. His grand whole, catholic soul squares with the good of all; therefore we find him in everything, everywhere.

To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up.

My standup persona is like I'll heighten things, but I'm observing the world as it is in sort of a heightened emotional state.

It's really fun to be writing and producing your own sketches. You almost have more control.

An episode that is near and dear to my heart is the entire cast in one room for the night because we get bed bugs in our apartment building so we have to stay with Martin Short.

If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.

I have tons of jokes with moments in them over the years in stand-up that don't get a laugh but I love them so they stay.

With the first episode [of John Mulaney Show] I tell a story that happened to me accidentally chasing a woman down the subway.

Part of standup is being loose and having a good time yourself and that translates to the audience.

On Friday night, it was fun [to know] that if you bombed, or whatever was going on, that you'd be on TV at 11. It was a cool feeling, and you'd get a couple hundred dollars.

What level of crazy is too much for you? I'm just curious.

I am a big fan of music in terms of storytelling device.

If you talk about big trends at Disney, these movies generally are generated by directors or directorial teams pitching ideas to John Lasseter.

Every time we get slapped down, we can say, Thank you Mother Nature, because it means we're about to learn something important.

Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

In sales, as in medicine, a prescription before diagnosis is a mistake in the arts.

The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.

In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it; what is happening in America is that those parades are getting smaller and smaller - and there are many more of them.

Small business, right down to the individual can beat big, bureaucratic companies ten times out of ten.

Investment success does not require glamour stocks or bull markets.

The baskets start at $25 and] the sky's the limit, I've done baskets worth hundreds of dollars. At that price, they are putting in luxury items.

The only cowards are sinners; fighting the fight is all.

I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.

If I did that, playing golf would drive me crazy.

Football is my guilty pleasure.