“Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
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“When we dance the earth trembles. When our steps fall on the earth we feel the shudder of life beneath us, and the earth feels the beating of our hearts, and we become one with the earth. We shall not sever ourselves from the earth. We must chant our being, and we must dance in time with the rhythms of the earth. We must keep the earth.”
― Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land
― Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land
“The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.”
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“This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!”
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