How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?
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Concrete is heavy; iron is hard--but the grass will prevail.
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
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Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a thousand books.
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Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
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There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.
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'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.
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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring.
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Beyond the wall of the unreal city... there is another world waiting for you. It is the old true world of the deserts, the mountains, the forests, the islands, the shores, the open plains. Go there. Be there. Walk gently and quietly deep within it. And then -
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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.
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Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.
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Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.
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So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.
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I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
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We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!
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Cowboys make better lovers: Ask any cow.
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Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
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At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, "thus far and no further."
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