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“The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.”

Men Artist Humanity Natural Focus Importance Reactions

Author:Ben Shahn

“In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in the woods, and waste and pure destruction are making rapid headway. If the importance of the forests were even vaguely understood, even from an economic standpoint, their preservation would call forth the most watchful attention of government”

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,By pulling off flesh from the living planet;As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.”

Ifs Mean Whole Order Felt Natural Planets Broken Importance Committed Flesh Rhythm Schemes Pulling Disturbed Jogging Natural Order Logging

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.”

Facts Law Natural Liberty Importance Victim Prey Transcendent Aggressiveness

Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

“Recent data and research supports the importance of natural climate variability and calls into question the conclusion that humans are the dominant cause of recent climate change.”

Humans Causes Natural Support Research Importance Climate Climate Change Conclusion Data Dominant Variability

Author:Judith Curry

“Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule and contempt.”

Mind Natural Dignity Importance Command Manners Contempt Ridicule Concealed

Author:Joseph R. Bartlett

“Rick Bass is one of a dwindling handful of American fiction writers still celebrating the importance of place, the natural world, and the struggle of a few brave souls to live and work respectfully in what's left of our western wilderness...The Lives of Rocks is his most lyrical and powerful book to date...a masterwork.”

World Stills Book Soul Left Natural Powerful Fiction Struggle Rocks Importance Brave Western Celebrate Wilderness Handful Natural World Bass Fiction Writers Lyrical Brave Souls

Author:Howard Frank Mosher