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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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When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations…
— John Henrik Clarke
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The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
— Phyllis McGinley
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There are more 'Don'ts' in golf than there are in any other avocation in life.
— Arnold Haultain
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What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more…
— Aldo Leopold
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If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get…
— Milton Friedman
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The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with…
— Nelson Algren
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There is no business, no avocation, whatever, which will not permit a man, who has the inclination, to give a little time,…
— Unknown Author
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For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.
— Wynn Bullock
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