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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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Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
— Ambrose Bierce
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There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a…
— Mark Twain
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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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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art…
— John Berger
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Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing,…
— Henry Van Dyke
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I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It…
— Lydia Lunch
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As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.
— John Smith
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Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.
— Elmer Rice
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I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the…
— John Masefield
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The reality of truth is not to be bought, to be sold, to be repeated; it cannot be caught in books. It…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off…
— Anne Fadiman
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People complain that the religious ground is unsure who have never compelled themselves to examine it with a tithe of the care…
— Peter Forsyth
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