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"Beyond the wall of the unreal city there is another world waiting for you. It is the old true world of the deserts, the mountains, the forests, the islands, the shores, the open plains. Go there. Be there. Walk gently and quietly deep within it. And then -May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night."
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"Take a giant drink of natures endless stream let it spout from your mouth in words so serene."
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"Creatures, I give you yourselves," said the strong, happy voice of Aslan. "I give to you forever this land of Narnia. I give you the woods, the fruits, the rivers. I give you the stars and I give you myself. The Dumb Beasts whom I have not chosen are yours also. Treat them gently and cherish them but do not go back to their ways lest you cease to be Talking Beasts. For out of them you were taken and into them you can return. Do not so."
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"He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods, the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted."
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"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."
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"If men could fit water into their pockets, the ocean would be empty."
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"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"
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"Memory works in different ways for everybody. Different capacities, different directions, too. Sometimes memory helps you think, sometimes it impedes. Doesn't mean it's good or bad. Probably means it's no big deal."
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"Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me."
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"There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me."
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"Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal."
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"Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul."
Justice

"A house built on greed cannot long endure."
Greed

"There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right."
Morality

"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."
Man

"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."
Imagination

"We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase 'to live like men."
Awareness

"One mile farther and I come to a second grave beside the road, nameless like the other, marked only with the dull blue-black stones of the badlands. I do not pause this time. The more often you stop the more difficult it is to continue. Stop too long and they cover you with rocks."
Endurance

"The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all."
Society

"A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society."
Society

"Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most."
Survival
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