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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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Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which…
— Aldo Leopold
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The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated…
— John Ruskin
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor…
— Herman Melville
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Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
— Herman Melville
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I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well…
— Kim Stanley Robinson
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Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank…
— Charles Dickens
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To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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