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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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When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees.…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful
— Mian Mian
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I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.
— Brian Andreas
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We realize the indivisibility of the earth-its soil, mountains, rivers, forests, climate, plants, and animals-and respect it collectively not only as a…
— Aldo Leopold
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We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the…
— Wendell Berry
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Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and time, the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.
— Morihei Ueshiba
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A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism…
— George William Curtis
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Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me…
— Katherine Dunham
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Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people.…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who…
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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