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Aldo Leopold Inspirational Quotes (188)

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Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
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...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.
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Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.
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There are degrees and kinds of solitude. I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.
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Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
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I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.
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We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.
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It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.
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Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky.
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All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.
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Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind I have no hope for conservation born of fear.
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Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
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No one would rather hunt woodcock in October than I, but since learning of the sky dance I find myself calling one or two birds enough. I must be sure that, come April, there be no dearth of dancers in the sunset sky.
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Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.
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How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!
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Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.
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Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.
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In country, as in people, a plain exterior often conceals hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with.
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We face the question whether a still higher standard of living is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.
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Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.
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