John Denver Quotations

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.

I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.

I am the hawk and there's blood in my feathers, but time is still turning they soon will be dry. And all those who see me and all who believe in me, share in the freedom I feel when I fly.

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.

Love the earth as you would love yourself.

Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.

It's a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit.

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

I think more about the family now. That's an interesting progression for me.

Love is a light that shines from heart to heart....