Trekking And Nature Quotes & Sayings

When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life. — Rick Nielsen

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace. — Edwin Way Teale

Accordingly, I do not believe that an "impulse to knowledge" is the father of philosophy; but that another impulse, here as elsewhere, has only made use of knowledge (and mistaken knowledge!) as an instrument. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return. — Mitt Romney

Death
It does not happen to the dead alone
Those left behind, die too
In parts that would never heal and come back to life
(Page 14) — Neena Verma

I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done ... in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit: so let it be done! — John Brown

And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation. — Angela Davis

If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it's the same for your heart. — Toni Braxton

Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good? — Thomas Jefferson

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile. — Hunter S. Thompson

Love is an element which though physically unseen is as real as air or water. It is an acting, living, moving force ... it moves in waves and currents like those of the ocean. — Prentice Mulford

Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older you realise there's always a catch to everything. So when I get, say, a commission to make a TV show, the catch is that you have to deliver something and then the sense of responsibility overwhelms the joy of the occasion. — Jack Dee

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind. — John French Sloan

I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer. — Raymond Carver