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"To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."
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"Here in this endless and gleaming wildernessI was removed farther than ever from the world of men --And I never saw so close and so clearlyThe image in the mirror of my own soul."
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"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable."
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"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"
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"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."
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"Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control."
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"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."
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"The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!"
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"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."
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"Sand by the seashore is inestimable."
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"It is spring, let us dance and dream with flowers. Let us sing and enjoy the trees."
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"We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."
Patriotism
"No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
Morality
"Generally the thunder-storms came in the afternoon, but once I saw one at sunrise, driving down the high mountain valleys toward us. It was a very beautiful and almost terrible sight; for the sun rose behind the storm, and shone through the gusty rifts, lighting the mountain-crests here and there, while the plain below lay shrouded in the lingering night. The angry, level rays edged the dark clouds with crimson, and turned the downpour into sheets of golden rain; in the valleys the glimmering mists were tinted every wild hue; and the remotest heavens were lit with flaming glory."
Nature
"I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action."
Philosophy
"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."
Relationship
"I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head."
Wisdom
"The leaders of thought and of action grope theirway forward to a new life, realizing, sometimes dimly, sometimes clear-sightedly,that the life of material gain, whether for a nation or an individual, is of valueonly as a foundation, only as there is added to it the uplift that comes fromdevotion to loftier ideals."
Philosophy
"I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also."
Leadership
"Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover's besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls 'the mad pride of intellectuality,' taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books."
Literature
"To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day."
Politics
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