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A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.
Aldo Leopold
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Aldo Leopold
Age: 60 †
Born: 1887
Born: January 1
Died: 1948
Died: January 1
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It is in midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines... a curious transfusion of courage.
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Whoever invented the word 'grace' must have seen the wing-folding of the plover.
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very diverse. The differences in the product are known as cultures. The rich diversity of the worlds cultures reflects a corresponding diversity. In the wilds that gave them birth.
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There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech.
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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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Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.
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On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.
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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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If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United States is of no consequence to me.
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That dark laboratory we call the soil.
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Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.
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