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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.
Aldo Leopold
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Aldo Leopold
Age: 60 †
Born: 1887
Born: January 1
Died: 1948
Died: January 1
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Iowa
Aldo Starker Leopold
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I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. And perhaps with better cause, for while a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a range pulled down by too many deer may fail of replacement in as many decades.
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Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.
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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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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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Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.
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The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress our opponents do not.
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There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.
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Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?
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The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.
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We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.
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A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct
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Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run.
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