‘There’s a power in helping people. A power in putting things right. You’re smart to recognise it. Too many people in this world prancing around, expecting to be admired for the wrong stuff.’
“Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.”
― Walk Two Moons
― Walk Two Moons
“Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.”
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”
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“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.”
― A Sand County Almanac
― A Sand County Almanac
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