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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I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.
—Clarence Darrow, 1932Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
—Charles I, 1636Tomorrow we take to the mighty sea.
—Horace, 23 BCThe whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
—H.L. Mencken, 1921He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverbWhen we define democracy now, it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1941Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.
—Mark Twain, 1873Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658