Politics is a bit like washing windows. No matter what side you are on, the dirt is always on the other side.
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Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important that television.
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Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
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A thing is right if it tends to preserve the stability, integrity, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong if it tends otherwise.
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One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
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We face the question whether a still higher standard of living is worth its costs in things natural, wild, and free.
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