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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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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does…
— Aristotle
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One swallow alone does not make a summer.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.
— Unknown Author
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I know how bad a thing it is to be a slave and I know how terrible it was but I don't…
— Walter Mosley
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One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.
— Christina Rossetti
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One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
— Aldo Leopold
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One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.
— Aristotle
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The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.
— Aristotle
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