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Aldo Leopold Inspirational Quotes (188)

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It is in midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines... a curious transfusion of courage.
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Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?
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There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.
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On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.
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That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.
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The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.
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That dark laboratory we call the soil.
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Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to turn up each day before breakfast. Like the river, we were free to wander.
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The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind.
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Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.
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The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.
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We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
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. . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters . . . glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.
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O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me
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I shall now confess to you that none of those three trout had to be beheaded, or folded double, to fit their casket. What was big was not the trout, but the chance. What was full was not my creel, but my memory.
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Wilderness is a continuous stretch of country preserved in its natural state, open to lawful hunting and fishing, big enough to absorb a two weeks' pack trip, and kept devoid of roads, artificial trails, cottages, or other works of man.
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We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses
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Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.
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Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.
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The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts
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Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels.
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Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.
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To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste to others, the most valuable part.
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No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.
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