“Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it!”
"The world is big, and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark."
- John Muir
Awareness
"Most people are on the world, not in it – having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them."
- John Muir
Awareness
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."
- John Muir
Awareness
"And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul."
- John Muir
Self-awareness
"You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you."
- John Muir
Self-awareness
"The expert in anything was once a beginner."
- Helen Hayes
Learning
"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Learning
"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."
- Dorothy West
Learning
"In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind, there are few."
- Vince Gironda
Learning
"I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it."
- Vincent van Gogh
Learning