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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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His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is…
— William S. Burroughs
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
— Edward Abbey
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Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness. Everything has to be filled in, it seems-appointment books,…
— Benjamin Hoff
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FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would…
— Moby
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The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.
— Jimmy Breslin
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I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now…
— Edward Ruscha
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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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You can't legitimately kick on income tax, for it's on what you have made. You have already made it. But, look at…
— Will Rogers
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The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
— Bob Dylan
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I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could…
— Barry Sanders
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Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space -…
— John Updike
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