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"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left."
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"Friendship is a magnificent art of life that is drawn by two hearts and two minds."

"Though I can make a friend in an hour, it will take a lifetime to cultivate a friendship."

"Best friends are those people who reveal to you what is wonderful inside of you, and you can all still laugh together."

"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them."

"It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on."

"Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."

"A friend is a favourable family."

"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."

"A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away."

"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."
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"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."


"Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient."


"One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring."


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


"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."


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


"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."


"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."
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