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• We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

  John Denver

  Inspirational, Song, Writing

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• The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.

  John Denver

  Mother, Father, Wind

  Song: The Flower That Shattered The Stone, Album: The Flower That Shattered The Stone

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• I would make my job a work of art. I would like whatever it is that I'm doing - everyone's experience of me, everyone's interaction with me, everyone's discussion, conversation, relationship with me - [to be] an event within which they get to see who they are. I would make of my life a work of art.

  John Denver

  Art, Jobs, Events

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• Though the singer is silent…there is still the truth of the song.

  John Denver

  Song, Singers, Silent

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• What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.

  John Denver

  Dream, Peace, Men

  Song: What One Man Can Do, Album: Seasons of the Heart, 1982

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• I suppose that's a question most often asked of me by people who would like to make a positive contribution towards a sustainable future and a healthy environment. There are so many things that need to be done that sometimes it seems overwhelming. I try to remind everyone that no one person has to do it all but if each one of us follows our heart and our own inclinations we will find the small things that we can do, and together we will come up with enough to create a sustainable future and a healthy environment.

  John Denver

  Heart, People, Healthy

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• Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes
  What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes
  Only two things that money can't buy
  That's true love and home grown tomatoes.

  John Denver

  Summer, Food, Home

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• The nuclear arms race is like two people sitting in a pool of gasoline spending all their time making matches.

  John Denver

  Two, Race, People

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• Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer.

  John Denver

  Love, Friends, Song

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• Celebrate Earth Day every day.

  John Denver

  Earth Day, Celebrate, Halt

  Song: Earth Day, Every Day, Album: Earth Songs

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• Romance lasts forever, love don't fade away. They may take away our future, but they can't stop yesterday.

  John Denver

  Romantic, Yesterday, Romance

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• Kiss me, and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me. Hold me like you'll never let me go.

  John Denver

  Romantic, Kissing, Waiting

  Song: Leaving On a Jet Plane

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• I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle.

  John Denver

  Philosophy, Cake, Wife

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• Reach for the heavens, and hope for the future, and all that will be, not what we are.

  John Denver

  Inspirational, Heaven, Hope For The Future

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• Love the earth as you would love yourself.

  John Denver

  Love You, Love Yourself, Earth

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• There's one piece of advice my dad gave me when he dropped me off at college. He said, "You've got the talent. You can sing and play guitar. That doesn't make you any better than anyone else.".

  John Denver

  Dad, College, Guitar

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• Aspen is the life to live, see how much there is to give. See how strongly you believe, see how much you may receive.

  John Denver

  Philosophy, Believe, Giving

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• I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.

  John Denver

  People, Want

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• I've had a deep love affair with skiing for many years.

  John Denver

  Deep Love, Years, Skiing

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• I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.

  John Denver

  People, Youth, Like You

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• Imagine what it might do to the human spirit to know that we have conquered hunger as a world wide societal issue?

  John Denver

  Issues, World, Might

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• Talk of poems and prayers and promises, and things that we believe in. How sweet it is to love someone, how right it is to care, how long it's been since yesterday.

  John Denver

  Sweet, Prayer, Philosophy

  Song: Poems, Prayers and Promises

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• Love is why I came here in the first place.

  John Denver

  Soulmate, Love Is, Firsts

  Song: Seasons Of The Heart, Album: Seasons of the Heart, 1982

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• There's an aspect of human nature in which we want to think we're better than somebody else. They're a different color. They speak a different language. They have a different name for the Creator. Whatever it is, that makes it okay for me to hate them, to try to get some of their land or some of their resources.

  John Denver

  Hate, Thinking, Color

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• For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers, come and stand beside me, we can find a better way.

  John Denver

  Brother, Children, Flower

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