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                                    The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations                                
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                                    It is in midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines ... a curious transfusion of courage.                                
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                                    Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.                                
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                                    We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.                                
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                                    One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring.                                
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                                    Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.                                
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                                    Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky.                                
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                                    Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.                                
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                                    Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.                                
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                                    The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.                                
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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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                                    Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.                                
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                                    What the youth needs to be told is that a ship is a-building in his own mental dry dock, a ship with freedom of the seas.                                
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                                    No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.                                
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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 future.                                
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                                    Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.                                
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                                    A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of the land.                                
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                                    The most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.                                
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                                    The boundary between tame and wild exists only in the imperfections of the human mind.                                
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                                    We grieve only for what we know.                                
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                                    A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct                                
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                                    Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.                                
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                                    Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.                                
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                                    What a dull world if we knew all about geese!                                
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                                    Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.                                
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                                    Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.                                
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                                    Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.                                
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                                    I love all trees, but I am in love with pines.                                
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                                    To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.                                
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                                    Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.                                
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                                    The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.                                
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                                    That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.                                
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                                    It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it.                                
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                                    Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.                                
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                                    Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run,                                
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                                    To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul - hope you like what you see.                                
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                                    The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.                                
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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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                                    The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.                                
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                                    In country, as in people, a plain exterior often conceals
hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with. — Aldo Leopold
                                				
        		        				
                                				
        		        				
                                				
        		        				
                                				
        		        				hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with. — Aldo Leopold
				                                                            
                                    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.                                
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                                    Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands.                                
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                                    There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than 
one rooted in pavements. — Aldo Leopold
                                				
        		        				one rooted in pavements. — Aldo Leopold
				                                                            
                                    Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.                                
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                                    We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses                                
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                                    It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.                                
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                                    We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.                                
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                                    Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow ... creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.                                
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                                    An oak is no respecter of persons.                                
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                                    That dark laboratory we call the soil.                                
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                                    In wildness is the salvation of the world,                                
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                                    Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.                                
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                                    They know no urge of seasons; they feel no kiss of sun, no lash of wind and weather. They live forever by not living at all.                                
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                                    Camp-keeping in the Delta was not all beer and skittles.                                
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                                    If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not ...                                
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                                    Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and 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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