Who has ever heard of any ministry of education that is called upon to solve any social problem acutely felt in the country? Never has such a case occurred because the world of education is a sort of retreat where the individuals, for the
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“Rest is prior to motion and stillness prior to action.”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
“Today the National Park Service employs a more casual approach to endangering wildlife: neglect. It spends almost nothing—less than 3 percent of its budget—on research of any type, which is why no one knows how many mussels are extinct or even why they are going extinct.”
― A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
― A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
“Who has ever heard of any ministry of education that is called upon to solve any social problem acutely felt in the country? Never has such a case occurred because the world of education is a sort of retreat where the individuals, for the whole of their scholastic life, remain isolated from the problems of the world.”
― The Absorbent Mind
― The Absorbent Mind
“Montaigne: “There were many terrible things in my life, but most of them never happened.”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
“There are 378,000 miles of roads in America’s national forests. That may seem a meaningless figure, but look at it this way—it is eight times the total mileage of America’s interstate highway system.”
― A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
― A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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