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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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Do you really know the living Jesus - not from books but from being with Him in your heart? Have you heard…
— Mother Teresa
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It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels…
— George Sand
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Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame,…
— Nikolai Gogol
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The purest joy in the world is joy in Christ Jesus. When the Spirit is poured down, his people get very near and…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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An important part of leaving and cleaving has to do with abandoning parental beliefs, lifestyles, values, and traditions that are not clearly…
— Lou Priolo
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It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.
— Gautama Buddha
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HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly…
— J C Ryle
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Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of…
— Constance Rourke
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The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving…
— George Eliot
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One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
— Aldo Leopold
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