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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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These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She…
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History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.
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It has become, in my view, a bit too trendy to regard the acceptance of death as something tantamount to intrinsic dignity.…
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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.
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The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the…
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And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.
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There’s only one question that matters, Ms. Lane, and it’s the one you never get around to asking. People are capable of…
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If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of…
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A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the…
— Charlotte Bronte
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