"The oldest task in human history: to live……" — Aldo Leopold
"The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it."
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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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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature…
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
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In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
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Natural history is not about producing fables.
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural…
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural…
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