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Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.
Aldo Leopold
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Aldo Leopold
Age: 60 †
Born: 1887
Born: January 1
Died: 1948
Died: January 1
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Aldo Starker Leopold
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What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow.
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Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.
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Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.
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Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them
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There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a sick landscape. We tilt windmills in behalf of conservation in convention halls and editorial offices, but on the back forty we disclaim even owning a lance.
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All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.
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The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.
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The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any such thing as land, among whom education and culture have become almost synonymous with landlessness. This is the problem of conservation education.
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Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
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There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.
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When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.
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We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.
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Our tools are better than we are, and grow better faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command the tides, but they do not suffice for the oldest task in human history, to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
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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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In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.
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I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all except by some wandering deer. It is a river who wields the brush and it is the same river who before I can bring my friends to view his work erases it forever from human view. After that it exists only in my mind's eye.
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It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it
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One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
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Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.
Aldo Leopold
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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