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Much like the conservationists who previously have received the Audubon Medal, including Stewart Udall, Rachel Carson and Ted Turner, I realize that this recognition cannot be a cause to rest, but a spur to continue our work.


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FRANCIS BACON In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which ...
FRANCIS BACON Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
FRANCIS BACON Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
FRANCIS BACON The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
FRANCIS BACON There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
FRANCIS BACON Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
FRANCIS BACON Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.
FRANCIS BACON It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringe...
FRANCIS BACON I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this u...
FRANCIS BACON Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which...
FRANCIS BACON Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure kno...
ROGER BACON Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.
FRANCIS BACON He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with b...
FRANCIS BACON There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself,...
FRANCIS BACON Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
FRANCIS BACON They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
FRANCIS BACON Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
FRANCIS BACON People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingraine...
FRANCIS BACON God's first creature, which was light.
FRANCIS BACON