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"Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart."
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"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."

"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory."

"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."

"Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter."

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."
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"But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights."

"Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?"

"Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons."

"It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience."

"Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable."

"The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected."

"A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality."

"In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease."

"Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies."
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