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Wild Quotes by Aldo Leopold
- There are some of us who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese or…
- Third, there is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called 'sportsmanship'. Our tools for the pursuit of wildlife improve faster than…
- Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them
- . . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters .…
- We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.
- There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a…
- There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.
- Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a…
- Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it…
More Wild Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. — Lord Acton
- I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about… — Lester Bangs
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it… — Francis Bacon
- I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie Murphy and… — Christine Baranski
- For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb… — Edward Abbey