Awareness Quote by Aldo Leopold

“Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.” quote by Aldo Leopold — Download Open image

“Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.”

Aldo Leopold

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Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands.

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Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild.

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He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

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Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

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If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and value to the new. Youth yet unborn will pole up the Missouri with Lewis and Clark, or climb the Sierras with James Capen Adams, and each generation in turn will ask: Where is the big white…

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This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all… On a still night, when the campfire is low and the Pleiades have climbed over rimrocks, sit quietly and listen ... and think hard of everything you have seen and tried to understand. Then you may…

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Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.

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We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the…

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