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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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As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men…
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As the wicked are hurt by the best things, so the godly are bettered by the worst.
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Already I've bettered my result from Snapper. It's a long year; plenty of the top guys will hopefully have one early exit,…
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We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then raising the…
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort,…
— Ezra Pound
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Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which…
— Aldo Leopold
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I want my legacy to be that I was a man of character, I was a God fearing man and somebody who…
— Andre Ward
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For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.
— John Milton
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Sometimes the person that excites you most isn't necessarily going to make the best husband or wife. It takes a lot to…
— Omar Suleiman
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And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation....…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The original vocals had an awful lot of work put into them at the time, and I wasn't really sure that I…
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The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
— John Ruskin
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