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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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Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all…
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I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go,…
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But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable…
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand…
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Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke…
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Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come…
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Girls don’t fight fair. They pull your hair and gauge you and pinch you; then they run off gasping to mommy when…
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Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of…
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Prayer or not, I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that…
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Love was also an easy word, used carelessly. Felons and creeps could offer it coated in sugar, and users could dangle it…
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That face. That body. And you know he’s packing. Look at the angle on that dangle.
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He keeps this up, he's bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they'll dangle him for certain.
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