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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 principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of…
— Jeremy Bentham
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It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
— Benjamin Franklin
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I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor; they sent a priest…
— Rodney Dangerfield
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The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known…
— Mark Twain
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All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the…
— William Shakespeare
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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
— Horace Walpole
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You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present…
— Ramana Maharshi
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The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not…
— Thomas Sowell
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I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent…
— H. L. Mencken
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I told my caddie today that I am in the position that I want to be in. That this is what I…
— Annika Sorenstam
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