There are degrees and kinds of solitude. . . . I know of no solitude so secure as … - Aldo Leopold

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The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.

Aldo Leopold

There are degrees and kinds of solitude. . . . I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.

Aloneness, Degrees, Know, Seen, Solitude, Spring

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Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.

Deal, Fever, General, Hay Fever, Hobbies, Men

Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism.

Doctors, Healthy, Land, Original, People, Region

Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us.

Admit, Bigger, Character, Health, Wilderness, Yield

But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy. . . . Nothing could be more salutary at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings.

Blessing, Healthy, Hypochondriac, Lying, Nothing, Stage

Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.

Conservation, Enough, Howl, Long, Mountain

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William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

The expenses of the paperwork and court fees involved in pursuing the appeal through the courts were not too high. In fact, as I recall, removing prayer from U. S. public schools cost less than $20,000. . . no Christian organization filed a brief in support of our opponents.

Christian, High, Prayer, Pursuing, Religious, Support

Harold Pinter

The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.

1957, Change, Rooms, Stood Up, Word, Wrote

Childe Hassam

The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.

Impressionism, Observe, People, Realism, True

Renny Harlin

There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.

Dream, Government, Years, Dreaming, Nobody, Maybe

Ursula K. Le Guin

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

Evil, Ged, Hard, Soul, Take