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It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.
Aldo Leopold
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Aldo Leopold
Age: 60 †
Born: 1887
Born: January 1
Died: 1948
Died: January 1
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Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.
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There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land, like Odysseus' slave-girls, is still property. The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations.
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Wilderness is a continuous stretch of country preserved in its natural state, open to lawful hunting and fishing, big enough to absorb a two weeks' pack trip, and kept devoid of roads, artificial trails, cottages, or other works of man.
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Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
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The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress our opponents do not.
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Two things hold promise of improving those lights. One is to apply science to land-use. The other is to cultivate a love of country a little less spangled with stars, and a little more imbued with that respect for mother-earth - the lack of which is, to me, the outstanding attribute of the machine-age.
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Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?
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Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.
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How would you like to have a thousand brilliantly colored cliff swallows keeping house in the eaves of your barn, and gobbling up insects over your farm at the rate of 100,000 per day? There are many Wisconsin farmsteads where such a swallow-show is a distinct possibility.
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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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I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.
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Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.
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The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born.
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The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.
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One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.
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Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven one may never get there.
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Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism.
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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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There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.
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Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.
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