“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”
"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
"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."
- Archer
Philosophy
"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."
- Paine
Philosophy
"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."
- Eric Sevareid
Philosophy
"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"
- Theodor Seuss Geisel
Philosophy
"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."
- G.K. Chesterton
Philosophy