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“Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism.”

People Should Study Land Conditions Healthy Disease Doctors Originals Regions Wilderness Disorder Mechanism Representatives Sample Normality

Book:For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings

Source: For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings

“As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.”

Mind Different Study Land Exercise Various Seeds Variety Sowing

Author:Pliny the Elder

“The ancient practice of allowing land to remain fallow for a season is now exploded, and a succession of different crops found preferable. The case is similar with regard to the understanding, which is more relieved by change of study than by total inactivity.”

Different Found Understanding Practice Cases Study Land Seasons Regard Ancient Allowing Crops Succession Relieved Inactivity

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.”

People Reality Sin Study Land Critical Percentages Brazil

Author:Paulo Freire

“How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of knowledge. No human being can know more than a tiny fraction of the whole. It must have been satisfactory in ancient times when one's own land seemed to be the universe; when research studies, pamphlets, books did not issue in endless flow; when laboratories and scientists were not so rapidly pushing back frontiers of knowledge that the process of unlearning the old left you gasping for breath.”

“We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land - nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution.”

May Stars Sun Study Land Ocean Constitution Compass Consulting

Book:Writings and speeches hitherto uncollected, v. 1. Addresses on various occasions

Source: Writings and speeches hitherto uncollected, v. 1. Addresses on various occasions

“Beaumont specifically pointed out that the cultural elements and idioms regarded as "Egyptian" could not have originated in the land of the Nile. This single fact is inviolate and cannot be denied. It is obvious to those who have taken the time to study the subject, that the Egyptian civilization was transplanted by Western adepts and elders.”

Facts Study Taken Land Subjects Civilization Elements Western Obvious Denied Elders Egyptian Idiom Nile Egyptian Civilization

Author:Michael Tsarion

“Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.”

Study Land Importance Assuming Unexpected Wilderness Laboratory

Book:A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

“Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.”

Ifs May Opportunity Language Given Understanding Study Land Tongue Acquire Foreign Language

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“If you don't know what career you'd change to, I've come to believe in starting with your values. What do you care most about: producing a new product, a cause, health, something unpopular but important, whatever. Next, get expertise in that, perhaps not at State U let alone private U but at You U: self-study, articles,, webinars, volunteering, etc. Then use your network rather than answering ads to land a launchpad job in that career.”

Ifs Knows Believe Important Self States Use Care Jobs Values Next Causes Careers Study Land Products Starting Etc Articles Ads Volunteer Expertise New Products Do You Care

Author:Marty Nemko