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Aldo Leopold
Age: 60 †
Born: 1887
Born: January 1
Died: 1948
Died: January 1
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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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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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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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What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land?
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Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.
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Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.
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Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.
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No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.
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Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.
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Ideas, like men, can become dictators. We Americans have so far escaped regimentation by our rulers, but have we escaped regimentation by our own ideas? I doubt if there exists today a more complete regimentation of the human mind than that accomplished by our self-imposed doctrine of ruthless utilitarianism.
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The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.
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Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.
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What a dull world if we knew all about geese!
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Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.
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Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.
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Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
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All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.
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We Americans, in most states at least, have not yet experienced a bear-less, eagle-less, cat- less, wolf-less woods. Germany strove for maximum yields of both timber and game and got neither.
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We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.
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The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.
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