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

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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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)

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

The Twelve Seasons (1949)

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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Utu, shepherd of the land, father of the black-headed, when you go to sleep, the people go to sleep with you; youth Utu, when you rise, the people rise with you.

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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

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Matter gave birth to a passion that has no equal, which proceeded from something contrary to nature. Then there arises a disturbance in its whole body.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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