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Known Quotes by Aldo Leopold
- Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very…
- 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…
- We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap and poison, the…
- The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes of self-renewal have…
- We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since,…
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- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont… — Isaac Asimov
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- God is best known in not knowing him. — Saint Augustine
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
- It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do… — Douglas Adams
- I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way… — Tallulah Bankhead
- I can tell you that I'd rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I've known. — Bob Barker
- On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. — Christiaan Barnard
- Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking. — Bernard Baruch
- Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been… — Bernard Baruch