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"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization."
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"Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future."

"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."

"Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization."

"There is nothing more savage than modern civilization."

"It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints."

"Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!"

"We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse."

"Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them."

"You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn."

"Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late."
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"Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests."

"Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance."

"Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter."

"I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them."

"In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia."

"I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve."

"Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it."
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