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January 1, 1950

This I Believe

I never knew a real farmer or canner who wasn't kind of humble and reverent. Maybe it's because we live so close to the raw forces of nature, which are wholly beyond human control. Drought, frost and flood can destroy...

January 1, 1950

This I Believe

A man cannot live in a country such as Alaska without often stopping to wonder about creation. Here he sees high mountains, vast glaciers, mysterious Northern Lights, some of the world’s largest animals, great forests and tundra carpeting the ground;...

January 1, 1950

This I Believe

I am British. For 24 years I was a regular officer in the British Army in the period between the Wars and during World War II. I loved my profession, but it sometimes used to worry me that the training...

January 1, 1950

This I Believe

I believe that I’m the master of my fate and the captain of my soul. I found that out at the age of 10, when my beloved mother died and left me and my father desolate. I was an only...

January 1, 1950

A Delicate Balance

Gilbert F. White, known as the “father of floodplain management," spent his career studying nature. And he found that whether he explored a small nearby stream or the larger mysteries of space, he felt a sense of order and divine direction in the physical universe.

January 1, 1950

This I Believe

I believe that most people change their beliefs as they grow up, and that it would be a mistake to think that we had finished growing up until we were dead. In other words, I believe in looking forward, not...

January 1, 1950

The Thread of Permanence

It is strange how certain things make a great impression on us in childhood. I remember these verses by Longfellow: "Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou are, to dust returneth, Was...