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Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.
Aldo Leopold
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Aldo Leopold
Age: 60 †
Born: 1887
Born: January 1
Died: 1948
Died: January 1
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Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
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Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.
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No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.
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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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Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.
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The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right only when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community, and the community includes the soil, waters, fauna, and flora, as well as people.
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
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If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.
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All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.
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We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.
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Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.
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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. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.
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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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There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.
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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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This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one can cast his eye upon the hills and see hard-boiled farmers who have spent their lives destroying land now carrying water by hand to their new plantations
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Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
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I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.
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Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.
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There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.
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