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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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There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were…
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I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
— Susan B. Anthony
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If you care about your personal liberty, you'll be cautious when you feel comfortable, blame all the illegal immigrants for everything. What…
— Ron Paul
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There's an importance of keeping an open mind. The brain is programmed to protect us, and that can mean imposing limits on…
— Chrissie Wellington
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Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
— Augustus
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Cautious of the flood so I always lay the right pipe.
— Drake
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While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering…
— George Washington
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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
— Homer
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The best lessons are usually learned from failure. You musn't beat yourself up if you fail - just pick yourself up, learn…
— Richard Branson
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.
— Robert Burns
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