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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
God has cared for these trees,
saved them from drought, disease, avalanches,
and a thousand tempests and floods.
But he cannot save them from fools.
- John Muir
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir 
To the lover of wilderness,
Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
- John Muir
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
- John Muir
Keep close to Nature's 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
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir
One may as well dam for water tanks
the people's cathedrals and churches,
for no holier temple has ever
been consecrated by the heart of man.
- John Muir
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
- John Muir
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
- John Muir
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir
Take a course in good water and air;
and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own.
Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
- John Muir
When we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- John Muir
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.
- John Muir
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
- John Muir
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
A few minutes ago every tree was excited,
bowing to the roaring storm,
waving, swirling, tossing their branches
in glorious enthusiasm like worship.
But though to the outer ear these trees
are now silent, their songs never cease.
- John Muir
Let children walk with Nature,
let them see the beautiful blendings
and communions of death and life,
their joyous inseparable unity,
as taught in woods and meadows,
plains and mountains and streams
of our blessed star,
and they will learn that death
is stingless indeed,
and as beautiful as life.
- John Muir
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind,
going and coming like ourselves,
traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day,
and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
- John Muir
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession;
a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
- Charles Lyell
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
We have a great life here in Alaska,
and we're never going back to America again!
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
- Winston Churchill
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller
You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly,
but I bet you ain't never seen a DONKEY fly!
- the movie Shrek (2001)
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
Never stir up litigation.
A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
- Abraham Lincoln
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves
for they shall never cease to be amused.
- Anonymous
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
- Winston Churchill
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
- Henry David Thoreau
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
I would never want to be a member of a group
whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- H. L. Mencken
Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been known to
yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
The way for a young man to rise is
to improve himself in every way he can,
never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
- Abraham Lincoln
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
You never can tell with bees.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.
- Anonymous
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Until you've lost your reputation,
you never realize what a burden it was.
- Margaret Mitchell
My father always told me that
all businessmen were sons of bitches,
but I never believed it till now.
- John F. Kennedy
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
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