Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933
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Those who believe in freedom of the will have never loved and never hated.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1893One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
—Helen MacInnes, 1963As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.
—David Sedaris, 1997The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.
—Prudentius, c. 405Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
—Samuel Johnson, 1771You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
—Mario Cuomo, 1985A true German can’t stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
—Walter Pater, 1873