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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
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"Within National Parks is room—glorious room—in which to find ourselves, in which to think and hope, to dream and plan, to rest and resolve."
- Naturalist Enos Mills
Once the revolution of exploitation is under way, statesmanship and craftsmanship are gradually replaced by salesmanship.
Wendell Berry • The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
Those who run our corporate state have fought environmental regulation as tenaciously as they have fought financial regulation. They are responsible, as Polanyi predicted, for our personal impoverishment and the impoverishment of our ecosystem. We remain addicted, courtesy of the oil, gas, and automobile industries and a corporate-controlled govern
... See moreChris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Teddy Roosevelt said, “In pleasant peace and security, how quickly the soul in a man begins to die.”
Naomi Klein • Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual
Even before the 1936 election, John Nance Garner, perturbed over the direction the New Deal was taking, had been protesting to Franklin Roosevelt. Garner had felt the emergency measures of the Hundred Days were necessary; he felt that the President had saved the country. But by 1934, he felt the emergency was over; the measures should be phased out
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I
George H. W. Bush, a self-identified environmentalist,
Jonathan Safran Foer • We Are the Weather
Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction ...
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