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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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The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing…
— Aldo Leopold
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I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the…
— Verlyn Klinkenborg
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America is addicted to oil...We must also change how we power our automobiles. We will increase our research in better batteries for…
— George W. Bush
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Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself,…
— John Gardner
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The Moon, the dried weeds and the Pleiades - Seven feet tall the dark, dried weed stalks make a part of the…
— William Carlos Williams
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Disaffection stalks around us.
— Dolley Madison
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Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism…
— Camille Paglia
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Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.
— Anne Michaels
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The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first. Like the hunter who stalks his prey and maneuvers…
— Adolf Galland
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If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to…
— Dave Barry
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It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.
— Wallace Stevens
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