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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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A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies…
— Jim Bishop
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The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like…
— Charles Dickens
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Overall I can fairly safely say Bobby Orr impressed me more than anybody with his tremendous talents. In Bobby's first N.H.L. game…
— Gordie Howe
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Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some…
— Hermann Kolbe
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A home is much more than a house built of lumber, brick, or stone. A home is made of love, sacrifice, and…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Wilderness is an anchor to windward. Knowing it is there, we can also know that we are still a rich nation, tending…
— Unknown Author
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I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.
— David McCullough
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People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that…
— Roger Swain
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Dead we become the lumber of the world.
— John Wilmot
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In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
— Frances E. Willard
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Government barriers on Business For example, the Endangered Species Act prevents 'disturbing the habitat' of the spotted owl. That has restricted 4.2…
— Rush Limbaugh
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