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"Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient."
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"A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life's concrete jungle."
"I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me."
"When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?"
"The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes."
"But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it."
"I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about."
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"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."
"We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive."
"Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind."
"One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring."
"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left."
"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."
"Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers."
"In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them."
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