If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
“If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.”
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If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
“If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.”
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“If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.”
“Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.”
“The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.”
“It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.”
“Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.”
“Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.”
“I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.”
“Far from environmental prophet, he is a foreign oil profiteer. That is the inconvenient truth of Al Gore.”
“I don't know if acting is genetic. Maybe it's environmental.”
“No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.”
“We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.”
“The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.”