"I have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given generation of men can have only a lease, not ownership, of the earth; and one essential term of the lease is that the earth be handed down on to the next generation with unimpaired potentialities. This is the conservationist's concern."

-- Roderick Haig-Brown

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“There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.”

Source : Edmund Wilson (1951). “Memoirs of Hecate County”
“There is always a chance to get even and I'm proud of the fact that for all the blows I always got back up again. That's what makes me most content.”

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“All bowmen are caught between heaven and earth, born to discovery, choosing to love and raise their eyes high to a future that is apparent only through the strength of their hope.”
“And he's lost both right front tires.”
“The fact is I have never been convicted of a crime.”
“Nobody needs another fashion show.”
“The Eeyore Educational System sees childhood as a waste of time, a luxury that society cannot afford . . . Put children in school at the earliest age possible; load them down with homework; take away their time, their creativity, their play, their power; then plug them into machines.”
“The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.”

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