People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect … - Giambattista Vico

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Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

Giambattista Vico

People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

Clear, Distress, Firsts, Mind, People

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Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.

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Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

Class, Human, Race, Reflection, Sense

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Crude, Delicate, Fierce, Firsts, Nature, Peoples

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

Life, Lines, Motivational, Proceed, Torturous, Twists

One truly understands only what one can create.

Create, Understands

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Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

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