PHILOSOPHY
With every right comes a responsibility, With every ease a fetter and possessions forge chains. Life is tragic to those who feel, and comic to those who think. All that's required for the forces of evil to overcome in this world is for enough good men to do nothing. Define your terms Making a profit is no more the purpose for business then getting enough to eat is the purpose of life. Walk on right, ok, walk on left, ok, walk in middle, squash like bug. Show a babe a golf ball and he will not tremble, but I should not like to own the boy whos hair does not raise the hat off his head when he sees his first deer. Acts of creation are normally reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk can circumvent this if they only know how. Consider a pine, By a curious loophole in the rules any clodhopper with a shovel can say, "Let there be a tree" and there will be a tree. And if his shovel be sharp and his back is strong there may eventually be ten thousand trees and at the end of seven years he may lean on his shovel and say "It is good". Thus there are two books from whence I collect my divinity. Besides that written one of God, the other of his servant nature. Those that have not found him in the one, have discovered him in the other. For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh again at them in our turn? A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal change in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions. The proof that conservation has not yet touched these foundations of conduct lies in the fact that philosophy and religion have not yet heard of it. In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial. When you are an anvil, hold you still. When you are a hammer, strike your fill. The road is always better then the inn. The only way to make a conservation ethic work is to ground it in ultimately selfish reasoning?people will conserve land and species fiercely if they foresee a material gain for themselves, their kin and their tribe. Whatsoever you do, do it heartily, as unto the Lord and not unto men. I am not everybody, but I'm, somebody. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. So because I am not everybody and cannot do everything I will not fail to do the one thing that I can do. Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty. Thus there are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that heat comes from the furnace; the other that breakfast comes from the grocer.