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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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War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
— Aberjhani
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The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the…
— Buster Keaton
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The land that had nourished him and had borne him fruit now turned against him and called him a fruit. Man, I…
— Jack Handey
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The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain…
— Buzz Aldrin
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We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.
— Bob Taft
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This was Mahatma Gandhi’s idea, moving from ownership to relationship—seeing that land does not belong to us. We belong to the land. We…
— Satish Kumar
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A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land,…
— Aldo Leopold
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How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Nobody's bought this land. And no one's going to want it either. It's dying land, lonely land." "Like me, then," I said.…
— Lucy Christopher
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Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out…
— Bible
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Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out…
— Bible
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