John Muir Quotes

Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.

John Muir

Boy

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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.

Ed Helms
- Business
- City
- Universe
I don't miss acting at all.

Zachery Ty Bryan
- Acting
- Miss
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

Fannie Hurst
- Always
- Name
- Writer
The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.

Wendy Kopp
My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

Natasha Trethewey
Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.

Ingrid Newkirk
- Pretty
- Die
- Fire