"To the dull mind nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"I had a dream last night, I was eating a ten pound marshmallow. I woke up this morning and the pillow was gone." -- Tommy Cooper
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. " -- Arthur Schopenhauer
"The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back!" -- Will Rogers
"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken." -- Leo Tolstoy
-- Aunt Esther "Who you calling ugly sucker?"
-- Fred Sanford: "I'm calling you ugly, I could push your face in some dough and make gorilla cookies."
"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most." -- Mark Twain
"I'm not out here to win a beauty contest." -- Kirk Gibson
"I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it." -- Clint Eastwood
"It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes." -- Andrew Jackson
"Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words."
-- Woody Allen
"There's a land where the mountains are nameless, And the rivers all run God knows where; There are lives that are erring and aimless, And deaths that just hang by a hair; There are hardships that nobody reckons; There are valleys unpeopled and still; There's a land- oh, it beckons and beckons, And I want to go back- and I will." -- Robert Service "The Spell of the Yukon"
"I know there's a God up in heaven who must love Rock and Roll." -- Gregg Allman
"The mountains are calling and I must go." -- John Muir
"Only after the last tree has been cut down Only after the last river has been poisoned Only after the last fish has been caught Only then you will find out that money cannot be eaten."
-- Cree Indian Prophecy
"Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth." -- Bible, Isaiah 5:8
"Study Nature, not books" -- Louis Agassiz
-- Fred Sanford: "I still want to sow some wild oats."
-- Lamont Sanford: "At your age, you don't have no wild oats, you got shredded wheat!"
"It is our task, in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours."
-- John F. Kennedy
"One man with courage makes a majority." -- Andrew Jackson
"We believe that ugliness begets ugliness and that nature's beauty, once destroyed, may never be restored by the artifice of man." -- Carl Carmer
"Nature is not a place to visit, it is home..." -- Gary Snyder
"This we know. The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family... Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." -- Chief Sealth (Seattle)
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on." -- Winston Churchill
"The key to intelligent tinkering is to keep all the parts." -- Aldo Leopold
"Always drink upstream from the herd." -- Will Rogers
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
-- Winston Churchill
"I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast." -- W.C. Fields
"In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity." -- Konrad Adenauer
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."
-- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, D.C.
"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
-- Brooke Shields
"Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid." -- John Wayne
"Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway."
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board, on Chlordane.
"There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't stay still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, and roam the world at will. They range the field and they rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest."
-- Robert Service
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