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Trying to live in harmony with the dictates of nature is probably as inspirational as living in harmony with the Koran or the Bible. Perhaps it is also a timely undertaking.

Bernd Heinrich

For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials.
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Essentials Existence Spring
Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are deliberate ecodeath.
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Caring Clear Cutting Hands Unrealistic
The essential thing is to run period! And to do it for a long time and consistently and then everything will take care of itself.
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Essentials Everything Long Running
Barry L. Jacobs and colleagues from the neuroscience program at Princeton University showed that when mice ran every day on an exercise wheel, they developed more brain cells and they learned faster than sedentary controls. I believe in mice.
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Believe Colleagues Exercise Princeton University
We are social animals. We like to feel a part of something of beauty and power that transcends our insignificance. It can be a religion, a political party, a ball club. Why not also Nature? I feel a strong identity with the world of living things.
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Animal Feel Identity Insignificance Party Strong
Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.
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Condition Excuse Long Waiting
My Maine mentors had long ago taught me to make home brew. I owned a rifle, and I’d already built a log cabin. The rest should be easy. I thought I’d give it a shot.
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Already Built Cabin Give Home Mentor Owned Rifle Shot Taught
Trying to live in harmony with the dictates of nature is probably as inspirational as living in harmony with the Koran or the Bible. Perhaps it is also a timely undertaking.
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Dictate Inspiration Probably Timely Undertaking
Edward Abbey said you must brew your own beer; kick in you Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.
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Beer Brew Home Must Teenager
As a consequence, it is the most democratic and most competitive of all sports because individual merit can prevail despite economic equality. It is a sport for everyone, the whole world over.
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Consequences Democratic Everyone Over Sport
I do not yet want to form a hypothesis to test, because as soon as you make a hypothesis, you become prejudiced.
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Hypothesis Mind Slides Soon Want Yet
I already had a good start. As a teenager in rural Maine, after we came to America, I had learned hunting, fishing, and trapping in the wilderness.
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Country Hunting Learned Teenage Trapping Wilderness
Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform.
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Fundamentals Running Sports
Movement is the essence of life.
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Essence Movement Running
The very idea of “managing” a forest in the first place is oxymoronic, because a forest is an ecosystem that is by definition self-managing.
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Ecosystems Forest Ideas Managing Oxymoronic Self
There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running–and nothing quite so savage, so wild.
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Deep Irrational Running Savages Wild

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