“Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways.” MindHeartStatesDreamPastCasesConditionsBecomingAspectMoodPassingPassingsWildernessMuseumsState Of MindAmerican DreamConfinedBecoming OneSuperlatives Book:Celebrating the American Earth: a Portfolio Source: Celebrating the American Earth: a Portfolio
“Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.” MindSpiritCultureStudyConditionsBecomingCircumstancesPerfectionInwardBecoming Something Author:Matthew Arnold
“We may not say to the poor: "You have a right to fight the rich merely because they are rich and in order to make yourselves less poor." We may say: "You have a right to fight to prevent the conditions of your life becoming inhuman," but we may not say, "You have a right to fight merely because you desire to have more and your opponent to have less."” MayWisdomDesireOrderFightingPoliticsPoorEconomyRichConditionsBecomingOpponentsLiberalismInhuman Author:Hilaire Belloc
“The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or wretchedness.” MenWisdomPoliticsNationsPrinciplesEconomyConditionsDependsBecomingEqualProsperityOur TimeLiberalismServitudeBarbarismWretchedness Book:Democracy in America Source: Democracy in America
“The Freedom which Christianity gives, is a Freedom from the Bondage of Sin and Satan, and from the Domination of Men's Lusts and Passions and inordinate Desires; but as to their outward Condition, whatever that was before, whether bond or free, their being baptised, and becoming Christians, makes no manner of Change in it.” MenGivingChristianDesirePassionSinChristianityConditionsBecomingScaryLustSatanDominationBondage Author:Edmund Gibson
“The within is ceaselessly becoming the without. From the state of a man's heart doth proceed the conditions of his life; his thoughts blossom into deeds, and his deeds bear the fruitage of character and destiny.” MenHeartStatesCharacterDestinyConditionsBearsBecomingDeeds Author:James Allen
“I'm pretty sure my dog, Pip, gets lonely when there is no one to be with him. But we humans can end up with a gnawing worry about that separation possibly becoming a permanent condition.” HumansEndsWorryConditionsDogBecomingLonelySeparationPermanentMy Dog Author:Thomas L. Dumm
“Confusion conditions activity, which conditions consciousness, which conditions embodied personality, which conditions sensory experiences, which conditions impact, which conditions mood, which conditions craving, which conditions clinging, which conditions becoming, which conditions birth, which conditions aging and death.” ConsciousnessConditionsPersonalityBirthBecomingActivityImpactAgingMoodConfusionCravingClingingSensory Author:Gautama Buddha