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Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm. It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm, and in those times of trouble when you are most alone, the memory of love will bring you home.
John Denver
2.
Death is not an ending, but a symbol of movement along the path upon which we are all traveling. As it may be painful to lose contact with the physical aspect of one we love, the Spirit can never be lost. We have been and always will be a part of each other.
John Denver
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Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.
John Denver
4.
I'm leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of a sweet singing river, somewhere in the sun where the mountains make love to the sky.
John Denver
I'm fleeing my heartaches and recollections to discover something unexpected, somewhere in the shadows close to the melody of a tranquil flowing stream, somewhere in the light where the peaks embrace the heavens.
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I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.
John Denver
I am of the opinion that we should be supportive of one another and not antagonistic. We must recognize that everyone is a valuable addition to our lives, regardless of our individual backgrounds or disparities.
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The future of life on Earth depends on our ability to see the sacred where others see only the common
John Denver
The fate of life on this planet relies on our capacity to recognize the holy where others perceive only the ordinary.
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There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experience our interconnectedness - it is a precursor to deep love. So in this quickening light, with the dawn of each new day, let us look for love. Let us no longer struggle. Let us ever become who we most want to be. As we begin to be who we truly are, the world will be a better place.
John Denver
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Commit yourself to do whatever it is you can contribute in order to create a healthy and sustainable future - the world needs you desperately. Find that in yourself and make a commitment - that is what will change the world.
John Denver
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Relax, ease back in your seats and let the music take you wherever it does.
John Denver
10.
Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong
John Denver
11.
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
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The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.
John Denver
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Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are.
John Denver
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No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we will find the small things that we can do to create a sustainable future and a healthy environment.
John Denver
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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
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If as an environmentalist we are against anything... it is against the arrogance of power and the most obcene ways it shows up, which is in greed.
John Denver
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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
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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
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I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.
John Denver
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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
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Though the singer is silent…there is still the truth of the song.
John Denver
22.
Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.
John Denver
23.
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
24.
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
25.
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
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Love is a light that shines from heart to heart.
John Denver
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Faith is a kind of knowing; it is different from hope. My faith is that life is purposeful; of that I'm sure. There is a God, there is intelligence, there is consciousness. And behind all of this, there is incredible compassion.
John Denver
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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
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Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.
John Denver
30.
Reach for the heavens, and hope for the future, and all that will be, not what we are.
John Denver
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Celebrate Earth Day every day.
John Denver
32.
Music does bring people together.
It allows us to experience the same emotions
John Denver
33.
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
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To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.
John Denver
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Today While the blossoms still cling to the vine I'll taste your strawberries I'll drink your sweet wine A million tomorrows shall all pass away Here I forget all the joy that is mine. Today I'll be a dandy and I'll be a rover You know who I am by the songs that I sing I'll feast at your table I'll sleep in your clover Who cares what tomorrow shall bring I can't be contented with yesterday's glory I can't live on promises winter to spring Today is my moment and now is my story I'll laugh and I'll cry and I'll sing
John Denver
36.
I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.
John Denver
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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
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Love is why I came here in the first place.
John Denver
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Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses still run, they are free.
John Denver
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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
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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
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I've had a deep love affair with skiing for many years.
John Denver
43.
Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.
John Denver
44.
I'm leaving on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
John Denver
45.
On the road of experience, join in the living day; if there's an answer, it's just that it is that way.
John Denver
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all bags are pack ready to go i am standing here outside your door i hate to wake you up to say goodbye dawn is braking its early morn the taxi waiting he blowing his horn already i am so lonesome i could die so kiss me and smile for me tell me that you'll wait for me and hold me like you never let me go cause leaving on a jet plane don't know when ill be back again oh babe i hate to go there so many let you down so many time i played around i tell you know that don't mean a thing every plase i go i'll think of you every song i sing i'll sing for you.
John Denver
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I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.
John Denver
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Love the earth as you would love yourself.
John Denver
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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
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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