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Aldo Leopold Inspirational Quotes (188)

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Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.
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Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.
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Hydrologists have demonstrated that the meanderings of a creek are a necessary part of the hydrologic functioning. The flood plain belongs to the river. The ecologist sees clearly that for similar reasons we can get along with less channel improvement on Round River.
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Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them
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A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.
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Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.
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Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands.
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Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he has already discovered what is important.
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To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—a very successful method of passing trouble from one place to the next. It solves nothing in any collective sense.
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Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run.
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We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.
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The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music and the preservation of some music to perceive.
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Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.
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Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.
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In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries no man can ignore all of them.
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There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.
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Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.
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Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.
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When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may see it with love and respect. - Perhaps such a shift of values can be achieved by reappraising things unnatural, tame, and confined in terms of things natural, wild, and free.
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The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on.... A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind.
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Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us.
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Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.
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I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.
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In wildness is the salvation of the world.
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