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Quote by Kathleen Norris

“In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.”

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Kathleen Norris is a renowned American poet, born on July 27, 1947. Her poetry is known for its profound religious sentiment and unique personal style, which has earned her a dedicated following. more

“Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.”

Long Behinds Car Stress Victim Threat Complexes Treasure Chiefs Parks Urban Unwilling Tourists Tourism Turmoil National Parks Robbing

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“If everything is important, then nothing is.”

Ifs Important

Author:Patrick Lencioni

“A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.”

Men Feels Enjoy Feet Adventure Hundred Miles Bicycle Adventurous Tourists Horseback

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.”

Humans Philosophy Political Growth Economic Economics Economic Systems

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.”

Humans Littles Spirit Water Principles Our Lives Cutting Adventure Civilization Originals Remains Environmental Bread Luxury Wilderness Betray Spares Human Spirit

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.”

Ifs Men Natural Numbers Succeed Prison Intention Operations Seals Synthetic

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.”

Men Should Trying Felt Prove Should Have Males Mum Arena

Author:Jo Brand

“There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.”

Kind Reality Action Lying Force Understanding Rooms Behavior Normal Ill Boundaries Restructure

Author:Guy Gavriel Kay

“English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.”

Needs England Hilarious Funny Simpsons Funniest Simpsons

Author:Matt Groening

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