"What avail are forty freedoms without a blank……" — Aldo Leopold

"What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?"

— 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…
The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward…
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.
Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and…
No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.
Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook,…
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we…
The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather…
Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility.…

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Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can… — Hosea Ballou
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. — Thomas Carlyle
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail… — B R Ambedkar
Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose. — Thomas Jefferson
we defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of… — Thomas Jefferson
I would love the chance to ask follow-up questions of Susan Rice because David Gregory apparently did not avail himself… — Trey Gowdy
Remain strong in your faith, as you were in former years. In this faith, in its close-knit unity our people… — Adolf Hitler
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing. — Samuel Johnson
Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do… — John F. Kennedy
There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this… — Saint Augustine
God is an inexhaustible source of all we need. Our unbelief is discovered in how little we avail ourselves of… — Paul Washer
As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal,… — John Jacob Abel

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