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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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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
— Albert Camus
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Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of…
— Frederick Buechner
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The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have…
— Andre Gide
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Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures,…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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He who gives back at the first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs of success has never been, is not,…
— Frederic Tudor
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I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive…
— William James
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An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.
— Walker Percy
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In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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