Nessmuk Quotes

#1. George Sears, called Nessmuk, whose "Woodcraft," published in 1884, was the first American book on forest camping, and is written with so much wisdom, wit, and insight that it makes Henry David Thoreau seem alien, humorless, and French.

John McPhee

#2. You're kind of blind, you know?" Puck whispered, smiling to soften his words. "I wouldn't defy Oberon for just anyone. But, for you ... " He leaned forward, touching his forehead to mine. "I'd come back from the dead for you.

Julie Kagawa

#3. Professor Binns had been very old indeed when he had fallen asleep in front of the staffroom fire and got up next morning to teach, leaving his body behind him.

J.K. Rowling

#4. A late victory is better than early defeat.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. If something bad happened just do this 3 things.First inhale second exhale and third accept that it happened.

Kenneth De Guzman

#6. Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

Alexis Korner

#7. At sunrise of the third day, I saw the corpse's chest begin to rise and fall and I heard the first intake of breath - a rasp like water being poured into a leather pouch.

Dan Simmons

#8. My real purpose was to see you, and to judge, if I could, whether I might ever hope to make you love me.

Jane Austen

#9. Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

C.S. Lewis

#10. There is a Precious Mountain
Even the Seven Treasures cannot compare
A cold moon rises through the pines
Layer upon layer of bright clouds
How many towering peaks?
How many wandering miles?
The valley streams run clear
Happiness forever!

Hanshan

#11. Time's relativity
is considered and abandoned,
for the more revelatory
experiences of starlight
in strands, and pearly
floors that span as far as
absolute compassion...

Kristen Henderson

#12. I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning I feel like a fraud, really, because I'm never sure how to get started.

Edward Norton

#13. I am everything I am today, because of my past.

Maajid Nawaz