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The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

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Aldo Leopold
Age: 60 †
Born: 1887
Born: January 1
Died: 1948
Died: January 1
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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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Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
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Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.
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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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In wildness is the salvation of the world.
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We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses
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. . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters . . . glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.
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Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.
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I shall now confess to you that none of those three trout had to be beheaded, or folded double, to fit their casket. What was big was not the trout, but the chance. What was full was not my creel, but my memory.
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Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.
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We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.
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There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.
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To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs.
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...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.
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Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.
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Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.
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It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.
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