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Rivers 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.
- . . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters .…
- In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.
- 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…
- Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic determinism is so…
- We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be…
- The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.
- 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…
- How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time!…
- The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.
- One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.
- 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…
More Rivers Quotes
- I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers… — Bruce Babbitt
- Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. — Francis Bacon
- The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in… — Lord Acton
- Love is the river of life in the world. — Henry Ward Beecher
- I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's… — Halle Berry
- The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus… — Vinoba Bhave
- After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross. — Buffalo Bill
- In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River. — Daniel Boone