"The last word in ignorance is the man……" — Aldo Leopold
"The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering."
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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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More Aeons Quotes
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One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons.
— Tilopa
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The animals you say were 'sent' for man's free use and nutriment. Pray, then, inform me, and be candid, why…
— Henry Stephens Salt
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That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.
— H P Lovecraft
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Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons. More than we experienced has gone by.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that…
— Nicholas Sparks
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After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances,…
— Annie Dillard
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I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth…
— Carl Jung
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The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeons involved…
— Martin Rees
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That is not dead which can eternal lie, yet with stranger aeons, even Death may die.
— H P Lovecraft
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NAMELESS-FORMLESS-BODYLESS-SELFLESS-UNSELFISH- ETERNAL-GOD or FOREVER-LIVING-BHAGAVAN-PARAMAATMAN has been BELIEVED for AEONS,at least by INDIANS as OUR-FATHER,OUR-MOTHER or OUR-SELF..!!
— Rkpatel
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NAMELESS-FORMLESS-BODYLESS-SELFLESS-UNSELFISH-ETERNAL-GOD or FOREVER-LIVING-BHAGAVAN-PARAMAATMAN has been BELIEVED for AEONS,at least by INDIANS as OUR-FATHER,OUR-MOTHER or OUR-SELF,as WE ie WORLD or UNIVERSE…
— Rkpatel
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