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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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I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long…
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And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, and looking back and…
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I saw the whole universe laid out before me, a vast shining machine of indescribable beauty and complexity. Its design was too…
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We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and there was…
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Immediately upon entering the weighing-in zone, I sensed an oppressive tension in the air, the lightweights staring and glaring at each other,…
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In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt…
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It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.…
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I was learning the importance of names - having them, making them - but at the same time I sensed the dangers.…
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Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now…
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I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs…
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