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The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

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All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared out of them so white people can go on holiday there.

Areas, Holiday, People, Racist, White, Wilderness
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The woods are a place where children can go to think. Children gravitate towards these spaces. When I was a child it was nothing more than a scrubby little overhang under a rhododendron bush, but it was incredibly important to me.

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What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakeable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire and air, a quintessence, pure spirit, resolving into no constituents. Don't waste your wildness: it is precious and necessary.

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Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

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Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

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The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

Loss, Mind, Silence, World
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