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Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.
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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The only true development in American recreational resources is the development of the perceptive faculty in Americans. All of the other acts we grace by that name are, at best, attempts to retard or mask the process of dilution.
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The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.
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Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.
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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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Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
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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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Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.
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What a dull world if we knew all about geese!
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When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.
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