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Botanical Collector Inspirational Quotes (224)

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Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
Aldo Leopold
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Brains are still unfashionable for women to wear, and it has always been proof of women's superiority that the more intelligent a man is, the more women admire him, while the bigger fool a woman is, the more men run after her.
Dorothea Dix
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I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.
Aldo Leopold
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Our imagination is struck only by what is great but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.
Alexander von Humboldt
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Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.
Aldo Leopold
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An oak is no respecter of persons.
Aldo Leopold
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Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
Aldo Leopold
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What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?
Aldo Leopold
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Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.
Aldo Leopold
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Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.
Aldo Leopold
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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.
Aldo Leopold
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Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them
Aldo Leopold
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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.
Aldo Leopold
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Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.
Aldo Leopold
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Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands.
Aldo Leopold
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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.
Aldo Leopold
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The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
Dorothea Dix
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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.
Aldo Leopold
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A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.
George Mercer Dawson
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Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run.
Aldo Leopold
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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.
Aldo Leopold
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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.
Aldo Leopold
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Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.
Aldo Leopold
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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.
Aldo Leopold
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