"The richest values of wilderness lie not in……" — Aldo Leopold
"The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future."
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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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Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility.…
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This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no…
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More Boone Quotes
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When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their…
— Stephen Vincent Benet
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The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by…
— A. O. Scott
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I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone.
— Sal Mineo
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Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some…
— Frank Gaffney
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When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy…
— Douglas Brinkley
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There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up.
— Dean Martin
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Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain…
— Clive Barker
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