Backwoodsman Quotes

#1. My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the 'National Geographic.'

Joseph Murray

#2. This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Faith is a spirit. It is an attitude. It is confidence in the heart.

Phil Pringle

#5. Democracy is not the end product, but the means to the end, which is the enjoyment of human rights by all.

Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

#6. Awareness (of the Self) prevails in matters where one becomes attachment-free (vitrag), and where one has attachment-abhorrence, there his awareness will not prevail.

Dada Bhagwan

#7. That was the trouble with the best of men. They always thought they were doing the right thing.

Robert Jordan

#8. We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation.

Lakshmi Mittal

#9. There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#10. The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.

Ariel Pink