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What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

Aldo Leopold

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Aldo Leopold
Age: 60 †
Born: 1887
Born: January 1
Died: 1948
Died: January 1
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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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There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet one need only own a shovel.
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Six days shalt thou paddle and pack, but on the seventh thou shall wash thy socks.
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Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.
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To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul - hope you like what you see.
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