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- Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer…
- In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or…
- For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any…
- There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.
- The more artificial a human environment becomes, the more the word ‘natural’ becomes a term of value.
- Categorical condemnation is the hatred of the mob. It makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob, a mob overflowing…
- The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this one except that…
- We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.
- It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is…
- We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner…
- True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly…
- There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again…
- These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it…
- To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is…
- People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and…
- When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference…
- The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and…
- A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
- A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means…
- We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.
- During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though still…
- Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth;…
- If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean that food is…
- I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness…
- What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle