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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.
Aldo Leopold
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Aldo Leopold
Age: 60 †
Born: 1887
Born: January 1
Died: 1948
Died: January 1
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Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.
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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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Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.
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