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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 engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents,…
— Unknown Author
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Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel…
— Steve Stockman
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The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on…
— Avery Brundage
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A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.
— George D. Prentice
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You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes:…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and…
— Charles Stanley
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A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.
— Thomas Merton
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Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies,…
— Aldo Leopold
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A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic…
— Frederick Pollock
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A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure -…
— Simon Hoggart
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