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One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.
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Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
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Six days shalt thou paddle and pack, but on the seventh thou shall wash thy socks.
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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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Aldo Leopold |
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Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?
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Aldo Leopold |
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The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
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The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.
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Aldo Leopold |
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Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild.
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Aldo Leopold |
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Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.
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Aldo Leopold |
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That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.
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Aldo Leopold |
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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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Aldo Leopold |
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There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.
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Aldo Leopold |
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Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.
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Aldo Leopold |
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An oak is no respecter of persons.
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Aldo Leopold |
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What a dull world if we knew all about geese!
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Aldo Leopold |
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Engineers did not discover insulation: they copied it from these old soldiers of the prairie war.
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Aldo Leopold |
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Whoever invented the word 'grace' must have seen the wing-folding of the plover.
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Aldo Leopold |
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The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.
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Aldo Leopold |
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There are a few sections of uncut timber, luckily state-owned.
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Aldo Leopold |
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It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.
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Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.
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Aldo Leopold |
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Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.
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Aldo Leopold |
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
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Aldo Leopold |
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Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.
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Aldo Leopold |
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Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
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In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.
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