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There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.

Aldo Leopold

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Aldo Leopold
Age: 60 †
Born: 1887
Born: January 1
Died: 1948
Died: January 1
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Botanical Collector
Ecologist
Environmentalist
Forestry Scientist
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Burlington
Iowa
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Six days shalt thou paddle and pack, but on the seventh thou shall wash thy socks.
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Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels.
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Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run.
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We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.
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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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Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.
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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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The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind.
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The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.
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One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.
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O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me
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The drama of the sky dance is enacted nightly on hundreds of farms, the owners of which sigh for entertainment, but harbor the illusion that it is to be sought in theaters. They live on the land, but not by the land.
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The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered place under everybody's nose
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What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?
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The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy - it is already too late for that - but in creating a better understanding of the extent of that influence and a new ethic for its governance.
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Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.
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It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.
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