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Environmental Quotes by Aldo Leopold
- . . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters .…
- In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.
- We realize the indivisibility of the earth-its soil, mountains, rivers, forests, climate, plants, and animals-and respect it collectively not only as a useful servant but…
- Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic determinism is so…
- We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be…
- We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we…
- Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
- Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
- I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.
- One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.
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- The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. — Edward Abbey
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