"We deeply need the humility to know ourselves as the dependent members of a great community of life, and this can indeed be one of the spiritual benefits of a wilderness experience. ... [T]o know the wilderness is to know a profound humility, to recognize one's littleness, to sense dependence and interdependence, indebtedness and responsibility."

-- Howard Zahniser

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“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
“At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.”
“The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.”
“Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.”
“I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.”
“There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?”
“The more you think you have to use physical force to control life, the less you control life.”
“I came up in a small town ghetto and I never did think I'd be a celebrity or famous athlete, I was just loving to play the game of basketball. And I worked hard at everything I did.”

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