Arthur Carhart quotes
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“Perhaps the rebuilding of the body and spirit is the greatest service derivable from our forests, for what worth are material things if we lose the character and quality of people that are the soul of America?”
-- Arthur CarhartSource : Arthur Hawthorne Carhart (1955). “Timber in Your Life”
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“If we are to have broad-thinking men and women of high mentality, of good physique and with a true perspective on life, we must allow our populace a communion with nature in areas of more or less wilderness condition.”
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“Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live long in the presence of towering mountains or sweeping plains without getting a little of the high moral standard of Nature infused into his being ... with eyes opened, the great story of the Earth's forming, the history of a tree, the life of a flower or the activities of some small animal will all unfold themselves to the recreationist....”
-- Arthur Carhart
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“You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.”
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“Be more interested in people's character, than their contributions.”
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“So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.”
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Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
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