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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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Booze is flowing all unknowing; grandma downs a few, smiles and giggles happily enjoying her new brew.
— Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire
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If you, unknowing, are able to create masterpieces in color, then unknowledge is your way. But if you are unable to create…
— Johannes Itten
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When I write, I don't know what is going to emerge. I begin in a condition of complete unknowing, an utter nakedness…
— Jane Hirshfield
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The Senate is an unknowing world
— Robert Caro
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Any company run by unknowing and mechanistic minds is in jeopardy and faces a limited life. Specifically, the pursuance of policies that…
— Peter Cochrane
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Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions. As soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed…
— Jacqueline Winspear
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A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living…
— Yayoi Kusama
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
— John Dryden
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The fact is that the more we take flight upward [to God], the more our words are confined to the ideas we…
— Pope Dionysius
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I pray we... come to this darkness so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see,…
— Pope Dionysius
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Trinity!! Higher than any being, any divinity, any goodness! Guide of Christians in the wisdom of heaven! Lead us up beyond unknowing…
— Pope Dionysius
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And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our…
— Samuel Daniel
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