John Muir Quotes

With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.

If you're going to come wanting to work really hard, you're never going to bum me out.

I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.

Shall we encourage our young men to be farmers and mechanics? Yes, a thousand times yes, encourage them to become producers as well as consumers, to be owners and tillers of the soil as well as cultivators and rentors; teach them that it is just as honorable to be an honest farmer as to be a lawyer, teacher or a preacher, and the royal road to success and happiness is built on honest labor, either of muscle or brain.

We believe in working hard and having fun at the same time. It's a way of life for me, and I feel tremendous.

Growing up on a Cumbrian farm showed me first hand that you get out of life what you put in. If you don't put crops in the ground, you can't feed your animals or earn money.

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall.

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.

In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight.

you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.

I learn that you can work really hard and still have a great time. That is part of Russell Crowe philosophy.

That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy.

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and you will accomplish your object.

Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keepon digging. Most people don't. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can't stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming and whether the asparagus is yet in sight.

Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.

I am no stranger to healthy competition-wor king hard and playing hard

If you're having fun doing what you're doing, you're gonna really want to work hard at it.

In the fields of opportunity it's plowing time again.

The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.

Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.