"Only the mountain has lived long enough to……" — Aldo Leopold
"Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf."
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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 Howl Quotes
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one of 161 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
— Francis Beaumont
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I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle.'
— Nicolas Cage
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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
— George Carlin
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Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and…
— Joss Whedon
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There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf…
— William James
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It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void,…
— Nick Cave
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It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a…
— John Lanchester
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There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime—oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know?
— Rick Moody
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And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen…
— Herodotus
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The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.
— Barry Hannah
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My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle…
— Che Guevara
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