"What more delightful avocation than to take a……" — Aldo Leopold
"What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land?"
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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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When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the…
— John Henrik Clarke
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The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
— Phyllis McGinley
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There are more 'Don'ts' in golf than there are in any other avocation in life.
— Arnold Haultain
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If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a…
— Milton Friedman
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The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it…
— Nelson Algren
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There is no business, no avocation, whatever, which will not permit a man, who has the inclination, to give a…
— Unknown Author
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For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.
— Wynn Bullock
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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
— Elsa Maxwell
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The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills,…
— William Osler
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My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.
— Robert Frost
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All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be…
— Eugene Field
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