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"Cristina Eisenberg weaves her observations as a scientist and her personal experiences afield into a resonant account about the web of life that links humans to the natural world. Grounded in best science, inspired by her intimate knowledge of the wolves she studies, she offers us a luminous portrait of the ecological relationships that are essential for our well-being in a rapidly changing world. The Wolf's Tooth calls for a conservation vision that involves rewilding the earth and honoring all our relations."

World Vision Web Of Life
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Brigham Young Religious Leader
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"Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a Michelangelo or a Shakespeare and give him a total knowledge of the plan of salvation of God and personal revelation and cleanse him and take a look at the statues he will carve and the murals he will paint and the masterpieves he will produce. Take a handel with his purposeful effort, his superb talent, his earnest desire to properly depict the story, and give him inward vision of the whole true story and revelation, and what a master you will have!"

Giving Effort Vision
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Brigham Young Religious Leader
Vision

"The Lord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him vision, and led him along, guided and directed him in his obscurity."

Years Age Vision
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Vision

"I felt okay for the first 45 seconds, and then my vision grew fussy. My lungs felt like deflated balloons. I would have sucked oxygen through my ears, if that were possible. I was experiencing oxygen debt, or perhaps better stated, oxygen death."

Vision Ears Oxygen
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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
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"For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God."

Ideas Giving Up Vision
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Alfred North Whitehead Philosopher, Mathematician
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"We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision."

Simple Vision Block
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Alfred North Whitehead Philosopher, Mathematician
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"The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort."

Effort Vision Unity
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Andy Warhol Artist, Filmmaker
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"[My vision of America is] a good vision. Actually the best is on TV. I wanted to shoot all the pictures off the TV. No one would have known the difference."

America Differences Vision
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Augusten Burroughs Author, Memoirist
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"When I first thought of being a writer I had visions of stacks of books in stores with my name on them, that sort of thing. But I never imagined this would be the reaction."

Book Names Vision
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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started."

Ends Vision Youth
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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
Vision

"Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential."

Men Vision Dawn
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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth."

Eye Vision Sight
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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
Vision

"I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry"

Real Running Vision
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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
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"Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?"

Forever Vision Leaves Of Grass
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