"Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and……" — Aldo Leopold
"Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief."
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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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An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly…
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In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when, if they really took an honest look…
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Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it…
— Horace Mann
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As for the people of Tasawwuf, they affirm the love of Allah, and this is more evident among them than…
— Ibn Taymiyyah
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This is common sense. This is nature, and what we're trying to do is defy nature because a certain group…
— Rick Santorum
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All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Prayer meetings are dead affairs when they are merely asking sessions; there is adventure, hope and life when they are…
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It is not certain that with this aid alone [possession of arms], they would not be able to shake off…
— James Madison
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By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might…
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I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleagues, but…
— William Rehnquist
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There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your…
— Dar Williams
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Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of…
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