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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.
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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Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind I have no hope for conservation born of fear.
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Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.
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Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself, but not the capacity to live in high density without befouling and denuding his environment, nor a conviction that such capacity, rather than such density, is the true test of whether he is civilized.
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A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
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For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet sufficiently enlightened to realize that we must now challenge that dogma, or do without our wilderness? Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?
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The only true development in American recreational resources is the development of the perceptive faculty in Americans. All of the other acts we grace by that name are, at best, attempts to retard or mask the process of dilution.
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Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.
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Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?
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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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In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries no man can ignore all of them.
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There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land, like Odysseus' slave-girls, is still property. The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations.
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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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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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He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.
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Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.
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For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.
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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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The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.
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Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
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