The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives. - Paul Shepard

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So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom.

Paul Shepard

The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives.

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To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.

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Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet.

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All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun a long circle back toward their former coherence. Whether they can arrive before the natural world is damaged beyond repair and madness destroys humanity, we cannot tell.

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There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.

Secret, Individual, Persons, Person, Undamaged

Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies. . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated personal crises of the aging preadolescent; all are familiar images of American society. They are signs of private nightmares of incoherence and disorder in broken climaxes where technologies in pursuit of mastery create ever-worsening problems - private nightmares expanded to a social level.

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By putting yourself in that intense form of stress, it makes regular life more peaceful.

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We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.

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So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom.

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She knows where she's going, and what she has to do. She could, after all, find her way to Route 95 South blindfolded. She could do it in the dark, in fair weather or foul; she can do it even when it seems she will run out of gas. It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

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