"Having to squeeze the last drop of utility……" — Aldo Leopold
"Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm."
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Aldo Leopold
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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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I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile,…
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32 grams raw, chop it in half, get 16. Double it times three, we got 48. Which mean a whole…
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What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel…
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Iraq will spread them even more and chop them up.
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It was my pork chop. But that's ok. I ate his dog food.
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I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.
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Al Gore announced he is finishing up a new book about global warming and the environment. Yeah, the first chapter…
— Conan O'Brien
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In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom.…
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I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home…
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The funny thing about Thanksgiving ,or any big meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it then go…
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