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All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.…
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The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing…
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Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
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There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.
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Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high…
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No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.
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Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to…
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
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For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet…
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The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the…
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Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded…
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The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows…
— Margaret Mead
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On Valentine's Day, millions of men give millions of women flowers, cards and candy as a heartfelt expression of the emotion that…
— Dave Barry
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I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn't going to auditions, I could do things like…
— Jenna Fischer
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Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in…
— Jesmyn Ward
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In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of…
— Aldo Leopold
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The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?
— Pope Paul VI
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I don’t care if I get one at all. Just as long as I keep getting anniversaries.
— Kelley Armstrong
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The secret anniversaries of the heart.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.
— Mark Twain
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