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Only Quotes by Aldo Leopold
- Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
- Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run,
- 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…
- 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,…
- Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.
- Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine,…
- Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has…
- There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle