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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 wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing…
— Aldo Leopold
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
— Lawrence Durrell
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Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade,…
— George Stigler
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The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And…
— Sappho
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Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of…
— R. Kent Hughes
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There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Time hurries by, we're here and gone.
— Howard Dietz
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Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.
— Winston Churchill
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Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to…
— Euripides
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Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.
— Horace
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The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet…
— Bill McKibben
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Nature is very un-American. Nature never hurries.
— William George Jordan
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