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“Nothing truly wild is unclean.”
― My First Summer in the Sierra
― My First Summer in the Sierra
“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
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“And it occurred to me how even pulling trees that day, just months ago, I was in heaven. Unaware. I had known nothing even as the evil was occurring, I hadn't been touched yet.”
― The Round House
― The Round House
“Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.”
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― The Worst Journey in the World
“Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different from and superior to all human beliefs that are not scientific statements--and this is untrue.”
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb
― The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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