"Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the……" — Aldo Leopold
"Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all offered as aids to self-reliance, hardihood, woodcraft, or marksmanship, but too often functioning as substitutes for them. Gadgets fill the pockets, they dangle from neck and belt. The overflow fills the auto-trunk and also the trailer. Each item of outdoor equipment grows lighter and often better, but the aggregate poundage becomes tonnage."
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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 Aggregate Quotes
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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
— Emile M. Cioran
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He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of…
— Henry George
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The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought…
— George Washington
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When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent,…
— Charles Lyell
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I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled…
— Amartya Sen
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My share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it…
— John Harvey Kellogg
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One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth…
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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Now Manchester United are 2-1 down on aggregate, they are in a better position than when they started the game…
— Ron Atkinson
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Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in…
— Unknown Author
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It should be possible to emphasize to students that the level of employment is a macroeconomic issue, depending in the…
— Paul Krugman
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The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse…
— Ben Bernanke
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History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life…
— Leo Tolstoy
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