Quote #19

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism.

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  1. To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.
  2. Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
  3. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may not ever need to go there.
  4. There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of lo…
  5. Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.
  6. Knowing now what we have learned, unless the need were urgent, I could no more sink the blade of an ax into the tissues of a living tree th…
  7. Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quic…
  8. The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.

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