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Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them
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
Rand Aldo Leopold
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The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered place under everybody's nose
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I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.
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There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.
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