Aldo Leopold Short Quotes

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Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.

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Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.

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It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.

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The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

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There are a few sections of uncut timber, luckily state-owned.

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In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

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There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.

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Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

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That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.

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Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

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For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.

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Whoever invented the word 'grace' must have seen the wing-folding of the plover.

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The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

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Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild.

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Six days shalt thou paddle and pack, but on the seventh thou shall wash thy socks.

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Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.

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If science cannot lead us to wisdom as well as power, it is surely no science at all.

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The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations

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Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?

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It is in midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines... a curious transfusion of courage.

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One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

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Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.

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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

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Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.

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Engineers did not discover insulation: they copied it from these old soldiers of the prairie war.

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Our new camp is on a windswept rock point. … We don't know what lake we're on, and don't care...

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Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.

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Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.

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Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.

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Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them

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