"The life of every river sings its own……" — Aldo Leopold
"The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse."
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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 Discord Quotes
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one of 135 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom…
— Christina Aguilera
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From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.
— Joseph Addison
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An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never…
— Jean Giraudoux
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
— Heraclitus
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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live…
— Immanuel Kant
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...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.
— Khalil Gibran
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Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
— George Perkins Marsh
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Don't let yourself forget that God's grace rewards not only those who never slip, but also those who bend and…
— Hildegard of Bingen
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In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them…
— Saint Augustine
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Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only…
— Pope Pius XII
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