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“It is a kind of church, back in these last cores. It may not be your church -- this last one percent of the West – but it is mine, and I am asking unashamedly to be allowed to continue worshipping the miracle of the planet, and the worship of a natural system not yet touched, never touched by the machines of man. A place with the residue of God – the scent, feel, sight, taste, and sound of God – forever fresh upon it”
― The Book Of Yaak: A Passionate Defense of Love, Wilderness, and Montana's Threatened Wild Places
― The Book Of Yaak: A Passionate Defense of Love, Wilderness, and Montana's Threatened Wild Places
“Dualism... Without it there can hardly be good literature. With it, there most certainly can be no good life.”
― Island
― Island
“Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics is not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything will really do.”
― Island
― Island
“We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.”
― Island
― Island
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