"For us in the minority, the opportunity to……" — Aldo Leopold
"For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television."
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136 Quotes by Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold has 136 quotes on this site.
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All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of…
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The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward…
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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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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
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There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.
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Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and…
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No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.
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Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook,…
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
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For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we…
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The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather…
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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 Geese Quotes
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one of 161 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the…
— Pietro Aretino
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The buzz is still with me. I get goose bumps.
— David Beckham
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
— Clarence Darrow
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A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.
— William Shakespeare
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Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
— Aesop
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Once the forest has been removed and the swamp starts being drained, that organic matter begins to oxidise and give…
— Frances Ford Seymour
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When you first run up First Avenue in New York, if you don't get goose bumps, theres something wrong with…
— Frank Shorter
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It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.
— John Lyly
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Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a…
— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
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The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common…
— H. L. Mencken
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I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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