Joseph Wood
Joseph Wood
cats creatures delicate good heard rather subject suffered
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
improved nine property seen
Overall, there has been a groundswell of improvements in the nine years I've been here. We've seen property snatched up by investors, improved and then sold.
decided farm four gray intended last mayor move public retire serve service spend stayed term weekend
I had intended to serve one more term as mayor pro-tem, then retire from public service and move out to my farm in the county, ... But over the weekend I decided it would be better for Gray for me to spend this last four years as mayor. If I stayed as mayor pro-tem, it would be like I was condoning the way Mayor Briley is doing things, and I don't.
nature joy cooking
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
cities important needs
We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of our lives. Without cities we cannot be civilized. Without nature, without wilderness even, we are compelled to renounce an important part of our heritage.
loneliness solitude known
To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
lonely nature adventure
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
nature excuse accounts
Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
technology population made
Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
nature animal men
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
home ideas spirit
The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
self environmental balance
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
nature people environmental
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
nature rotting earth
Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.