"Health is the capacity of the land for…" — Aldo Leopold

Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal. - Aldo Leopold

"Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal."

— 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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I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had… — Tyra Banks
Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives. — Gerry Adams
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. — Warren G. Bennis
We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are… — Andrew Bernstein
As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely… — Annie Besant
Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological. — Kathryn Bigelow
I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of… — Theodore Bikel
In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. — David Blaine
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. — Omar N. Bradley
I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to… — Berkeley Breathed
I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of -… — Warren Buffett
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is… — Frederick Buechner

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