". . . perhaps our grandsons, having never……" — Aldo Leopold
". . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters . . . glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in."
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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 Canoe Quotes
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Every man paddles his own canoe.
— Frederick Marryat
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As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
— Katharine Hepburn
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Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river…
— Oren Lyons
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If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other travel. Travel…
— Pierre Trudeau
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What does it mean when a man falls in love with a radiant face across the room? It may mean…
— Robert Bly
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The feel of a canoe gunnel at the thigh, the splash of flying spray in the face, the rhythm of…
— Grey Owl
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When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods diet following a…
— Benjamin Spock
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You can't fire a cannon, from a canoe!
— Charles Poliquin
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There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance,…
— Sigurd F. Olson
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When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known.
— Sigurd F. Olson
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But there are important calls to both my personal life and professional endeavors about which I am excited to pursue,…
— Unknown Author
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