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Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

— Joseph Wood Krutch The Twelve Seasons (1949)

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Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

The Twelve Seasons (1949)

The Wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him Vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him Sportsman.

Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so, and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

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