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The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.
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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Science contributes moral as well as material blessings to the world. Its great moral contribution is objectivity, or the scientific point of view. This means doubting everything except facts it means hewing to the facts, let the chips fall where they may.
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An Ecologist lives in a world of wounds.
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I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.
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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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Six days shalt thou paddle and pack, but on the seventh thou shall wash thy socks.
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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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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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The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy - it is already too late for that - but in creating a better understanding of the extent of that influence and a new ethic for its governance.
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Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to turn up each day before breakfast. Like the river, we were free to wander.
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Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.
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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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Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?
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To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul - hope you like what you see.
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It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it
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I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.
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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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On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.
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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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Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.
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Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.
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