Famous Naturalist Quotes

#1. John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there's a lot of truth to that.

Tom Bodett

#2. Well,' I shrug, all innocent, 'we all ride our little hobbyhorses, don't we, Mr. Peel?

L.A. Meyer

#3. Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess

Irving Fisher

#4. Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

Romain Rolland

#5. You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.

Mario Puzo

#6. Half of your mastery of power comes from what you do NOT do, what you do not ALLOW yourself to get dragged into.

Robert Greene

#7. Having been ripped open and drained by the crowd
When I enter my home,
Many homes seem to be waiting for me
to give a shape to this life
which is about to perish.

Suman Pokhrel

#8. In order to make the April mortgage, Kurt had been forced to sell all his CDs, disconnect his Internet, and never set foot in a Jamba Juice.

Maria Semple

#9. Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.

John Piper