"Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and……" — Aldo Leopold

"Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution."

— Aldo Leopold

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136 Quotes by Aldo Leopold

Aldo Leopold has 136 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of…
The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward…
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.
Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and…
No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.
Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook,…
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we…
The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather…
Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility.…

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More Abstinence Quotes

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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. — Saint Augustine
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather… — Samuel Butler
I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I… — Giacomo Casanova
Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex. — Kurt Angle
My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence… — Robert E. Lee
The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker… — Clement of Alexandria
Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised. — Rachel Maddow
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. — Albert Einstein
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. — Frances E. Willard
When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining… — Clive James
Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence. — Robert Herrick
It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion… — James Madison

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