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To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul - hope you like what you see.

Aldo Leopold

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Aldo Leopold
Age: 60 †
Born: 1887
Born: January 1
Died: 1948
Died: January 1
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Iowa
Aldo Starker Leopold
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But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy. . . . Nothing could be more salutary at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings.
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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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Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.
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Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.
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No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.
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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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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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This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one can cast his eye upon the hills and see hard-boiled farmers who have spent their lives destroying land now carrying water by hand to their new plantations
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The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music and the preservation of some music to perceive.
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Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.
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Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven one may never get there.
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