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- We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast…
- Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.
- We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have…
- The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.…
- We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to…
- These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect,…
- There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then a strange blight…
- Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is…
- We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man…
- We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated…
- Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological…
- Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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