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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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Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow
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The most painful household accident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned plug.
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Three things cannot be called back: the arrow when it speeds from the bow, the milk when the churn is upturned, the…
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I won’t lie to you—it was hilarious. Yes, we were in trouble, yes, this was a disaster, and so one and so…
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He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with…
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On reflection,’ Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, ‘this wasn’t one of your better plans.
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…but Sassenach—I am the true home of your heart, and I know that.” He lifted my hands to his mouth and kissed…
— Diana Gabaldon
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