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Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.
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
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Burlington
Iowa
Aldo Starker Leopold
Rand Aldo Leopold
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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.
Aldo Leopold
Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.
Aldo Leopold
Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.
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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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Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.
Aldo Leopold
Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild.
Aldo Leopold
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.
Aldo Leopold
Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.
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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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Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven one may never get there.
Aldo Leopold
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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Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.
Aldo Leopold
Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.
Aldo Leopold
Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very diverse. The differences in the product are known as cultures. The rich diversity of the worlds cultures reflects a corresponding diversity. In the wilds that gave them birth.
Aldo Leopold
No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.
Aldo Leopold
The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.
Aldo Leopold
Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.
Aldo Leopold
It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.
Aldo Leopold
Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.
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