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The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
The rich diversity of the world’s cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
I shall now confess to you that none of those three trout had to be beheaded, or folded double, to fit their casket. What was big was not the trout, but the chance. What was full was not my creel, but my memory (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation’s character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
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 (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one’s own land? (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
Our tools are better than we are, and grow better faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command the tides, but they do not suffice for the oldest task in human history, to live on a piece of land without spoiling it (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master? (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
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 wild flowers is a right as inalienable as free speech (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
... perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters... glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
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 saved in many places if it is to be saved at all (Aldo Leopold Quotes)
The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse (Aldo Leopold Quotes)