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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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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in…
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Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?
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Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth…
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Many kinds of fruit grow upon the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship; as with the orange tree its…
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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the…
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There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land,…
— Aldo Leopold
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And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow…
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