“The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.” MeanArtIndividualBornFieldsGrewGeniusMusicianWestWesternGrassSoilArt Music Author:Toru Takemitsu
“And so when we talk about intangible values remember that they cannot be separated from the others. The conservation of waters, forests, soils, and wildlife are all involved with the conservation of the human spirit. The goal we all strive toward is happiness, contentment, the dignity of the individual, and the good life. This goal will elude us forever if we forget the importance of the intangibles.” IfsHumansRememberSpiritValuesIndividualGoalWaterForgetForeverInvolvedDignityImportanceEnvironmentalStriveForestsSoilContentmentGood LifeConservationHuman SpiritWildlifeIntangibleEludeElude Us Author:Sigurd F. Olson
“Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows rapidly and luxuriantly. Name anything bad in man and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with particular liveliness and abundance.” MenPoliticalLyingEvilPoliticsNamesIndividualGrowsStruggleParticularAmbitionSoilAbundanceSuspicionDisrespectSlanderPoisonousMorbidEnmityShamelessNettlesPolitical Struggle Author:Maxim Gorky
“We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people... The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere.” PeopleKnowsMenSpiritGamesIndividualSolitudeTragedyFishesNobleForestsSoilWildernessCatastropheShrinkingErosionUnforgivable Author:Ansel Adams
“Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will. It allows other forces to arise side by side with and in opposition to political power. It thus becomes the basis of all those activities that are free from violent interference on the part of the state. It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.” StatesPoliticalIndividualForceSidesProgressMaterialsActivityLimitsIntellectualBasesPropertySeedsViolentAriseOperationsSoilOppositionSpheresRootedAutonomyInterferencePrivate PropertyPolitical Power Author:Ludwig von Mises
“Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.” MenWorldLifeIdeasDeathDiesIndividualNatureHe ManFriendsClimateSoilVegetation Book:The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937 Source: The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937