Yosemite Quotes - Page 3

• There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Running, Adventure, Weather

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• I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Trying, Months

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• The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Lying, Climbing, Technique

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• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

  John Muir

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

  John Muir (2001). “The Yosemite”, p.177, Library of Alexandria

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• There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.

  John Muir

  Unity, Fragments, Units

  John Muir (2015). “John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California”, p.84, e-artnow

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• While our managers debated what steps to take to address the sales and cash-flow crisis, I began to lead week-long employee seminars in what we called Philosophies. We'd take a busload at a time to places like Yosemite or the Marin Headlands above San Francisco, camp out, and gather under the trees to talk. The goal was to teach every employee in the company our business and environmental ethics and values.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Business, Philosophy, Cash Flow

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• While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Fall

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• In God's wildness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.

  John Muir

  Lying, Healing, Civilization

  "Alaska Fragment" (1890)

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• You might be a redneck if your kids are going hungry tonight because you just had to have those Yosemite Sam mud flaps.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Kids, Redneck, Tonight

  Jeff Foxworthy (2006). “The Redneck Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree”, p.47, Harper Collins

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• One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.

  John Muir

  Book, Soul, One Day

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My mama didn't see it comin, my daddy was there.
  What's my excuse? Cartoons were the root.
  Started with Yosemite Sam
  With the gun in the palm of the hand,
  What couldn't I demand?

  Pusha T

  Rap, Gun, Hands

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• As I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was the conqueror and who was the conquered. I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.

  Warren Harding

  Climbing, Lasts, Caps

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• Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.301, The Mountaineers Books

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• I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation?

  Ray Bradbury

  Morning, Men, Ducks

  "Why Cartoons Are Forever". articles.latimes.com. December 03, 1989.

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• There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

  Billy Connolly

  Being Happy, Running, Adventure

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• There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Running, Rainy Day

  "The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

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