"I shall now confess to you that none……" — Aldo Leopold
"I shall now confess to you that none of those three trout had to be beheaded, or folded double, to fit their casket. What was big was not the trout, but the chance. What was full was not my creel, but my memory."
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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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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the…
— Emile M. Cioran
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I first would allow the guilty bankers to pay, you know, the ability to pay back anything over $100 million…
— Roseanne Barr
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Incubated. And then raised. And then beheaded. And then plucked. And then cut up. And then put on a grill.…
— Mitch Hedberg
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The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling…
— Herman Melville
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Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been…
— Jan Brewer
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You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.
— Joseph Stalin
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When Paul was taken in chains from his filthy Roman dungeon and beheaded at the order of the opulent madman…
— Randy Alcorn
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After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity…
— William Lilly
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Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great…
— Sarah Fielding
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The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in ways we're not even…
— Gloria Reuben
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If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible... If we…
— Will Rogers
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