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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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Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.
— John Maynard Keynes
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SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave.…
— Ambrose Bierce
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On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines,…
— Homer
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As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength…
— Salman Rushdie
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It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of…
— Barry S. Strauss
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To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze.…
— Homer
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One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land,…
— Aldo Leopold
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Granted, in order to give selflessly, one often starts giving selfishly. As Tiresias said to Odysseus: "Honey ... you don't get through…
— Frederick Lenz
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For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the…
— Homer
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