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Aldo Leopold has 137 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.…
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The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing…
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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 a high…
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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, and to…
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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 as yet…
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The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the…
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Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded…
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A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns…
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For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet…
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Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.
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Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the…
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I can't get used to the ease with which one covers the world today. It's no longer an effort--Pole--equator--oceans--continents--it's just a question…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on…
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The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded…
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation…
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In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy.
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