"If human nature eventually is going to take……" — Edward Hoagland
"If human nature eventually is going to take the place of nature everywhere, those of us who have been naturalists will have to transpose the faith in nature which is inherent in the profession to a faith in man-if necessary, man alone in the world."
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Edward Hoagland
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38 Quotes by Edward Hoagland
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Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a…
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It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.
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To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a…
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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this…
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Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in…
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Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.
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If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not…
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Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is…
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Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the…
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There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has…
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The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so,…
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Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have…
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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