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Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.
Aldo Leopold
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Aldo Leopold
Age: 60 †
Born: 1887
Born: January 1
Died: 1948
Died: January 1
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Botanical Collector
Ecologist
Environmentalist
Forestry Scientist
Naturalist
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Burlington
Iowa
Aldo Starker Leopold
Rand Aldo Leopold
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Land
Education
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Soil
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Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.
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In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.
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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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Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.
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I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all except by some wandering deer. It is a river who wields the brush and it is the same river who before I can bring my friends to view his work erases it forever from human view. After that it exists only in my mind's eye.
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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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We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses
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For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet sufficiently enlightened to realize that we must now challenge that dogma, or do without our wilderness? Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?
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I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. And perhaps with better cause, for while a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a range pulled down by too many deer may fail of replacement in as many decades.
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The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on.... A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind.
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To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste to others, the most valuable part.
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O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me
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It is in midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines... a curious transfusion of courage.
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I shall now confess to you that none of those three trout had to be beheaded, or folded double, to fit their casket. What was big was not the trout, but the chance. What was full was not my creel, but my memory.
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It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.
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There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a sick landscape. We tilt windmills in behalf of conservation in convention halls and editorial offices, but on the back forty we disclaim even owning a lance.
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