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Knowing now what we have learned, unless the need were urgent, I could no more sink the blade of an ax into the tissues of a living tree than I could drive it into the flesh of a fellow human.


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But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.


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Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist.


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The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.


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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.


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There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with the best of intentions, and I recommend it to every serious wino.


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Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.


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I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.


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What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.


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Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.


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Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.


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A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.


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I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.


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If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.


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If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.


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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.


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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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Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.


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As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.


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What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.


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We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.


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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.


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There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.


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I am not an atheist but an earthiest.


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Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game.


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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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Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.


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I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life.


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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.


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Life is cruel? Compared to what?


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