"The practice of conservation must spring from a……" — Aldo Leopold
"The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right only when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community, and the community includes the soil, waters, fauna, and flora, as well as people."
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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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We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.
— Ben Barnes
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The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential…
— Kenneth Tynan
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Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.
— Emile Chartier
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[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order,…
— William Lawrence Bragg
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I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give…
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.
— Suzanne Vega
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Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.
— Karim Rashid
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But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a…
— George Smoot
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It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious…
— Edith Schaeffer
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Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.
— Edith Schaeffer
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I try to make my things aesthetically pleasing; but, if it isn’t functional, people will ‘oo’ and ‘aah’ over it…
— Sam Maloof
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Life is a wave of creative consciousness rippling through space and time that we have the honor of aesthetically surfing.
— Alex Grey
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