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From Quotes by Aldo Leopold
- A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.
- The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing…
- My dog does not care where heat comes from, but he cares that it comes, and soon. Indeed he considers my ability to make it…
- 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…
- My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land... In…
- I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all except by some wandering deer. It is a river who wields the…
- There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and…
- Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.
- On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds.…
- There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other…
- To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—a very successful method of passing trouble from one…
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