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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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Iowa
Aldo Starker Leopold
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet one need only own a shovel.
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I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.
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We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
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It is in midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines... a curious transfusion of courage.
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Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.
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In country, as in people, a plain exterior often conceals hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with.
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Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.
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Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run.
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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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We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.
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There are degrees and kinds of solitude. I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.
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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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