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Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosoph...

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It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

We have preserved the book, and the book has preserved us.

God loves his work and therefore wills to preserve it. Creation and preservation are two aspects of ...

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Dietrich BonhoefferCreation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical mora...

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Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet...

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The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into t...

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Jared DiamondCollapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.

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Jean-Jacques RousseauDiscourse on the Origin of Inequality

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themsel...

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John MuirJOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of a...

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Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to count...

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Michael PollanSecond Nature: A Gardener's Education

Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the ...

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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in co...

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A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own ...

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We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We ...

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What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I...

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Albert CamusThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is econ...

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