A Quote by Holmes Rolston III
The splendors of earth do not simply lie in their roles as human resources, supports of culture, or stimulators of experience.
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Only when science and technology are used with human concern in a world in which all of the earth's resources are held as the common heritage of all of the earth's people can we truly say that there is intelligent life on Earth.
I don't really identify with America, I don't really feel like an American or part of the American experience, and I don't really feel like a member of the human race, to tell you the truth. I know I am, but I really don't. All the definitions are there, but I don't really feel a part of it. I think I have found a detached point of view, an ideal emotional detachment from the American experience and culture and the human experience and culture and human choices.
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Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.
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The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.
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Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience in the human condition.
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The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.
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