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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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Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery…
— Francis Bacon
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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
— William Osler
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Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you…
— Khalil Gibran
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The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.
— William Blake
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If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca…
— Denise Chavez
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The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many…
— Rachel Carson
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Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors…
— Alice James
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The bus roared through Indiana cornfields that night; the moon illuminated the ghostly gathered husks; it was almost Halloween. I made the…
— Jack Kerouac
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I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky…
— Reif Larsen
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