John Muir Quotes

Man is born to eat.

If you're hungry, you know that you want to eat. You don't know what's on the menu - perhaps it's not your favorite dish - but you will eat.

The belly has no ears.

All things require skill but an appetite.

Hunger can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

You will be tempted by the need to feed yourself.

The belly comes before the soul.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

I am always hungry and wanting to have sex. This is a fact.

Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.

I eat to survive, you know?

People are animals, man.

I don't really get hungry that much. Sometimes I get cravings for certain foods. But I can go all day without eating.

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

I'm hungry, Garion, and I don't think well when I'm hungry." "That might explain a lot," Beldin noted blandly. "We should have fed you more often when you were younger."

At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different--in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.