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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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In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two…
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I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge…
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I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood…
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Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where…
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I'm just playing ball. Trying not to think about it too much.
— Buster Posey
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
— Gabrielle Reece
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While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there…
— Andy Kaufman
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You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out that playing…
— David James Duncan
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I never want to quit playing ball, They'll have to cut this uniform off me to get me out of it
— Roy Campanella
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I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Infield practice is more mystic ritual than preparation, encouraging the big-leaguer, no less than the duffer in the stands, to believe in…
— Roger Angell
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If in a city we had six vacant lots available to the youngsters of a certain neighborhood for playing ball, it might…
— Aldo Leopold
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