A walk on the slippery rocks 15

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   Andy Brett Posted 9:58 pm
   19 Jul 2005

   Muir"Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe." -- John Muir

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   Winnebago Posted 12:21 am
   20 Jul 2005

   Leopold"I sit in happy meditation on my rock, pondering, while my line dries again, upon the ways of trout and men. How like fish we are; ready, nay eager to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook."
   Aldo leopold, "A Sand County Almanac"
   
   

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   amazingdrx Posted 2:12 am
   20 Jul 2005

   Socrates number 8?There's something wrong here.
   He drank the hemlock he's gotta be number ONE!!!!

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   amazingdrx Posted 3:33 am
   20 Jul 2005

   Here's one dave.I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
   
   Frank Lloyd Wright
   
   US architect (1869 - 1959)
   A great one to substitute until I search "The Apology" for a nature quote from Socrates.  The search function on the site you used didn't get the job done.
   Organic architecture, Wright's discovery and claim to fame, will eventually return humankind to a symbiotic  relationship with nature, the lost garden of eden.
   When buildings and vehicles become symbiotic cellular organisms that humans live and travel within ...aum.  
   Crack that code with a syllogism, if you can?  Mwahahahahaha.  Hehey.

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   chris@organicmatter Posted 5:06 am
   20 Jul 2005

   quotes...it seems maddeningly obvious that, if everyone who purports to cherish wild landscape decides that he or she must own and live on a chunk of it, there won't be any more wild landscape. -- David Quammen
   And what of Nature itself, you say--that callous and cruel engine, red in tooth and fang?  Well, it is not so much of an engine as you think.  As for "red in tooth and fang," whenever I hear the phrase or its intellectual echoes I know that some passer-by has been getting life from books. -- Henry Beston
   
   Organic Matter: Blogging the environment

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   jeremy1701 Posted 5:23 am
   20 Jul 2005

   How about least favorite quotes?"You can't just let nature run wild."
   
   --Republican Wally Hickel
   
   Proud, *Liberal*, American

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   Emily Cunningham Posted 6:55 am
   20 Jul 2005

   No 1 greatest philosopher and conservativesI noticed Karl Marx was voted the No 1 greatest philosopher.  Here's an interesting tidpit, conservatives ranked The Communist Manifesto as the No 1 Most Harmful Book of the 19th and 20th Centuries.  It even beat out Hitler's Mein Kampf.  Go figure.  
   Look at the other books, they're quite telling.  
   
   

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   Emily Cunningham Posted 7:18 am
   20 Jul 2005

   Wikipedia nature quotesI <heart> Wikipedia.  Check out this page of nature quotes. And then add your favorite quote!
   Here are a few good ones that I came across:
   
   
   "Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty."     - John Ruskin, (1819-1900)
   
   
   
   
   "One Touch of nature makes the whole world kin." - William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Troilus and Cressida
   
   
   
   
   "To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from." - Terry Tempest Williams
   
   

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   Jon Christensen Posted 10:25 am
   20 Jul 2005

   nature"If we want to attain a living understanding of nature, we must become as flexible and mobile as nature herself."
   
   --Goethe

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    Michael Boydston Posted 12:23 pm
    20 Jul 2005

    4 moreGrowth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.  (Edward Abbey)
    When they win, it's forever; when we win, it's merely a stay of execution. We've got to remain eternally vigilant. (David Brower)
    Gentlemen, do you know what has happened this morning?  I just saw a chestnut-sided warbler - and this is only February! (President Theodore Roosevelt, entering a cabinet meeting)
    When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.  (H.G. Wells)
    
    

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    jdhlax Posted 6:15 pm
    20 Jul 2005

    Native American"This love of things is like a disease with them."  Red Cloud, commenting on white people's materialism.

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    amazingdrx Posted 10:38 pm
    20 Jul 2005

    Yep jd.Measuring fullfillment by quantity of possesions and consumption.  Instead of real quality of life.

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    amazingdrx Posted 10:43 pm
    20 Jul 2005

    Karl.His greatest contribution was the theory that economics precedes all other aspects of human culture.  
    Humankind makes it's living and then invents all sorts of intellectual, religious, and political baggage to justify everything staying exactly the way it is.
    And the right claims the dictatorship of the proletariat did not work?
    It failed in Russia and China, but look how it thrives at Walmart and Halliburton!!  Hehey.

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    amazingdrx Posted 10:45 pm
    20 Jul 2005

    Great thread dave.And it explains why we never agree on anything.  I was trained as a philosopher in college also.

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    Storm Dragon Posted 1:39 am
    18 Aug 2005

    Sad, but trueHow do you like this quote?
    
        "We have been placed in charge of a wonderful garden, and we are destroying it with the complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors."  (Gerald Durrell).  I hope I got it right.

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