"No one would rather hunt woodcock in October……" — Aldo Leopold
"No one would rather hunt woodcock in October than I, but since learning of the sky dance I find myself calling one or two birds enough. I must be sure that, come April, there be no dearth of dancers in the sunset sky."
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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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More April Quotes
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In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of…
— Tony Blair
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April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
— Hal Borland
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Oh, to be in England now that April's there.
— Robert Browning
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There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in…
— William C. Bryant
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I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place…
— Naomi Campbell
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I gave birth to my first son in April 1986. I thought it would be a good goal to get…
— Kim Alexis
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer…
— Thomas Carlyle
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In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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"I call them april babies cause they fools"
— Lil Wayne
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The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France. (2nd April 1945)
— Adolf Hitler
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With the defeat of the Reich and pending the emergence of the Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South American…
— Adolf Hitler
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Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of…
— William Shakespeare
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