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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.…
• The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing…
• Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
• Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
• There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.
• Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high…
• No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.
• Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to…
• Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
• For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet…
• The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the…
• 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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