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The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.

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
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Burlington
Iowa
Aldo Starker Leopold
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I love all trees, but I am in love with pines.
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When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.
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