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Leopold, Aldo. "The Land Ethic." A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There. Oxford University Press, 1949.

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Berry, Wendell. "The Peace of Wild Things." Openings. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.

Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.

Donald Justice

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Justice, Donald. "Men at Forty." Night Light. Wesleyan University Press, 1967.

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Sandburg, Carl. "Fog." Chicago Poems. Henry Holt and Company, 1916, I. 1.

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Sandburg, Carl. "Fog." The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003, I. 1.

Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind.

George Gaylord Simpson

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Simpson, George Gaylord. The Meaning of Evolution. Yale University Press, 1949, epilogue.

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Schweitzer, Albert. Zwischen Wasser un Unwald [On the Edge of the Primeval Forest]. A. and C. Black, 1922, ch. 11.

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Schweitzer. "On the Edge of the Primeval Forest." The Primeval Forest. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

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Jung, Carl. "The Art of Living." Sunday Times, 17 July 1960.

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Hedberg, Mitch. Comedy Central Presents. Comedy Central, 5 Jan. 1999.

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Elizabeth II. Speech on her twenty-first birthday. 21 Apr. 1947, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa. Radio broadcast.

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Hand, Learned. Speech to the Board of Regents. 24 Oct. 1952, University of the State of New York, Albany, NY, USA.

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McPhee, John. Basin and Range. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981.

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Sandburg, Carl. "Grass." Cornhuskers. Henry Holt and Company, 1918, I. 1.

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Sandburg, Carl. "Grass." The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003, I. 1.

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Beerbohm, Max. "From Bloomsbury to Baywater." Mainly on the Air. William Heinemann, 1946. Originally published in World Review of Reviews, Aug. 1940.

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Hand, Learned. "The Preservation of Personality." Commencement. 2 June 1927, Bryn Mawr College, Byrn Mawr, PA, USA.

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Heller, Joseph. Conversations with Joseph Heller, edited by Adam J. Sorkin. University Press of Mississippi, 1993. Originally spoken during an interview by Sam Merrill. Playboy, June 1975.

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Whalen, Philip. Scenes of Life at the Capital. Maya Quartos, 1970.

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Coolidge, Calvin. "Equal Rights." 4 July 1916, Daniel Webster's home, Marshfield, MA, USA.

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Deutsch, Karl. The Nerves of Government: Models of Political Communication and Control. Free Press, 1963, ch. 7.

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Santayana, George. The Genteel Tradition at Bay. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931, ch. 2.

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Clark, Kenneth B. Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power. Harper and Row, 1965, ch. 9.