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"To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering."
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"I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum."
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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
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"At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"I always begin to compose the melody first."
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"My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts."
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"My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964."
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"The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn."
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"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."
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"We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising."
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"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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"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."
People


"Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers."
Education


"Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind."
Development


"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."
Beauty


"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."
Love


"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land."
Men


"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left."
Friendship


"Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient."
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"One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring."
Geese
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