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Aldo Leopold
Age: 60 †
Born: 1887
Born: January 1
Died: 1948
Died: January 1
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Iowa
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For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.
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That dark laboratory we call the soil.
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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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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.
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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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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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Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.
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To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—a very successful method of passing trouble from one place to the next. It solves nothing in any collective sense.
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To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
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It is in midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines... a curious transfusion of courage.
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Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
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What a dull world if we knew all about geese!
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A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct
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In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.
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I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all except by some wandering deer. It is a river who wields the brush and it is the same river who before I can bring my friends to view his work erases it forever from human view. After that it exists only in my mind's eye.
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Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing.
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It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.
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An oak is no respecter of persons.
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We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.
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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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