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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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Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, "For my sake, the entire world was created."
— Baal Shem Tov
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And in that narrow cockpit I wept, as I shall never weep again, when I felt the concrete brush against his wheels…
— Unknown Author
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When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded…
— Ovid
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Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be…
— Patrick Kavanagh
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I have often been downcast, but never in despair;
— Anne Frank
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A joyful heart is more easily made perfect than a downcast one.
— Philip Neri
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I would go to the deeps a hundred times a cheer a downcast spirit.
— Charles Spurgeon
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I was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I was getting…
— Johnny Ramone
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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the…
— Anne Frank
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I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only parading…
— Yasunari Kawabata
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