"One of the penalties of an ecological education……" — Aldo Leopold
"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise."
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Aldo Leopold
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136 Quotes by Aldo Leopold
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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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