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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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You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of…
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I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around…
— Michael Palin
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There are some of us who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity to…
— Aldo Leopold
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What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and…
— Laurie Lee
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We gathered the wild-flowers. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight; As thro' the field we rov'd. Yes, life there seem'd one…
— George Linley
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April Rain It is not raining rain to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on the…
— Robert Loveman
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Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of…
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over…
— Willa Cather
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Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...
— Susan Polis Schutz
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Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Wild flowers grow where they will.
— Rachel Lambert Mellon
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Let where I stand be holy ground. Let the breath I take be a gift from The Creator. Let the scent of…
— Bob Hawk
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