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Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.
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Knowing where and who are intimately linked.
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Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.
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Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more…
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Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance…
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I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against…
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Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world
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Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment.…
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O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!
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The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.
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We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We…
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Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?
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A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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Living's heavy work, but off to one side, the way we are, it's useless, too. It don't make sense. If I knowed…
— Natalie Babbitt
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Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of…
— John Darnielle
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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like…
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The word rattled in my head like rocks in an oatmeal box.
— Janet Fitch
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There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not…
— Margaret Atwood
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Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of…
— Gary Snyder
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Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.
— Terry Pratchett
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That's what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable - and…
— Lauren Oliver
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Words are like sand. The tide flows over them again and again and they are gone. Actions are like rocks. The tides…
— Melchor Lim
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