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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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How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.
— Andrew Sean Greer
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Through the chill of December the early winter moans... but it's that January wind that rattles old bones.
— John Facenda
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Originally I had a block about appearing in a musical. I went to a voice teacher for a while, but that did…
— Rex Harrison
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I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I…
— Jonathan Franzen
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It thunders, howls, roars, hisses, whistles, blusters, hums, growls, rumbles, squeaks, groans, sings, crackles, cracks, rattles, flickers, clicks, snarls, tumbles, whimpers, whines,…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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It's a question we all ask ourselves. What have we done lately? It rattles us each birthday.
— Daniel H. Pink
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the moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy
— E E Cummings
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When Barrons looks at me like that, it rattles me. Lust, in those ancient, obsidian eyes, offers no trace of humanity. Doesn’t…
— Karen Marie Moning
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To be honest," I halfwhispered, "I don't feel as safe with him as I do with you." "I know." A ghost of…
— Lisa Kleypas
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-and nobody’s getting laid!” I practically shouted. “You think I don’t know that?” He shifted his body beneath me, making me painfully…
— Karen Marie Moning
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High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its…
— Aldo Leopold
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The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing…
— Siobhan Davies
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