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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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Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have…
— Walter E. Williams
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From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a…
— Tony Juniper
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I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the…
— Steven Seagal
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As the father of six children, I want to know that when my wife or I drop our kids off at school…
— Mike Fitzpatrick
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Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is…
— Aldo Leopold
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Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more…
— H. Jay Dinshah
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The zombie is in a lot of ways the perfect horror movie bad guy. It plays on so many fears all at…
— James Gunn
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Australian Aboriginees say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the…
— Robert Moss
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Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of…
— Gilbert Sorrentino
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If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories,…
— Robert M. Sapolsky
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Lawyers are predators in grey worsted
— Tom Holt
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Chronic sexual predators [to Vachss, pedophiles] have crossed an osmotic membrane. They can’t step back to the other side - our side.…
— Andrew Vachss
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