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In wildness is the salvation of the world.
Aldo Leopold
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Aldo Leopold
Age: 60 †
Born: 1887
Born: January 1
Died: 1948
Died: January 1
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Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run.
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The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the June woods is in itself proof that dead trees are transmuted into living animals, and vice versa.
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The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?
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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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One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
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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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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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Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .
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No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.
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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.
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Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.
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I love all trees, but I am in love with pines.
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Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.
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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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Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.
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Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven one may never get there.
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We face the question whether a still higher standard of living is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.
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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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