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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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One line on the arm, one line on the heart. The bastards who stood by my side with two lines. They'll be…
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There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political…
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When it's a minor or supporting role, you learn to make the most of what you're given. I can make two lines…
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There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful…
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The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is…
— Daniel Libeskind
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If you ever want to eat a tuna sandwich again, don't go to a tuna factory. I visited one where they had…
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Intuition is the discriminative faculty that enables you to decide which of two lines of reasoning is right. Perfect intuition makes you…
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This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.
— David Foster Wallace
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One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence…
— Aldo Leopold
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If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit…
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For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it…
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