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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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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures…
— Cecil Beaton
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There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
— George Washington Carver
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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People would rather be wrong than be different.
— Henry Jacobsen
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You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.
— Baltasar Gracian
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To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause…
— Mary McCarthy
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Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.
— Ben Shahn
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A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.
— Luis Bunuel
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You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to…
— Thomas Sankara
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It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States,…
— Ezra Stiles
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