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

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

Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt. — Aldo Leopold

If you practice with your head, two hours is plenty. — Leopold Auer

We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. — Aldo Leopold

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains. — James Baldwin

Every man
I know this
turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing — Leopold Fechtner

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring. — Aldo Leopold

Let us listen to the voices of our Forebears ... In the smoky cabin, souls that wish us well are murmuring. — Leopold Sedar Senghor

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution. — Aldo Leopold

Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky. — Aldo Leopold

Now I'm in real trouble. First my laundry called and said they lost my shirt and then my broker said the same thing. — Leopold Fechtner

Music appeals to me for what can be done with it. — Leopold Stokowski

The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy. — Aldo Leopold

Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost. — Aldo Leopold

The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. — Aldo Leopold

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. — Aldo Leopold

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

The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future. — Aldo Leopold

Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events. — Aldo Leopold

God made the integers; all else is the work of man. — Leopold Kronecker

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

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness. — Aldo Leopold

Man desires, woman is desired. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

But why talk in superlatives, as if something that is beautiful could be surpassed? — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped,
deserves to be whipped. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Dangerous forces lie within me. You awaken them, and not to your advantage. You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land. — Luna Leopold

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

Camp-keeping in the Delta was not all beer and skittles. — Aldo Leopold

To any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution. — Aldo Leopold

An oak is no respecter of persons. — Aldo Leopold

All about us the earth steamed; mists rose up toward heaven like clouds of incense; a shattered rainbow still hovered in the air. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land. — Aldo Leopold

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

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

There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf. — Aldo Leopold

Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gatt gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.
The dear God has made the whole numbers, all the rest is man's work. — Leopold Kronecker

That dark laboratory we call the soil. — Aldo Leopold

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. — Aldo Leopold

My heart is a void, dead, and this makes me sad. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing. — Leopold Kronecker

Wall Street is a place where the day begins with good buys. — Leopold Fechtner

In wildness is the salvation of the world, — Aldo Leopold

The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me. — Leopold Sedar Senghor

Calvin was virtually the founder of America. — Leopold Von Ranke

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. — Leopold Stokowski

Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst. — Leopold Schefer

Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control. — Aldo Leopold

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry. — Leopold Schefer

Anne Arundel County has become the world's epicenter of military intelligence and defense-related information technology. — John R. Leopold

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing. — Leopold Stokowski

The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth. — Aldo Leopold

Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands. — Aldo Leopold

The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not. — Aldo Leopold

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than
one rooted in pavements. — Aldo Leopold

All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence. — Leopold Von Ranke

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal. — Aldo Leopold

So," Wanda cried, "a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery? — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses — 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. — Aldo Leopold

Nearly every understanding is gained by a painful struggle in which belief and unbelief are dramatically interwoven. — Leopold Infeld

It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear. — Aldo Leopold

Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in. — Aldo Leopold

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason ... — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow ... creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible. — Aldo Leopold

If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark. — Leopold Fechtner

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

God made the integers, man made the rest. — Leopold Kronecker

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive. — Aldo Leopold

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you. — Aldo Leopold

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Watch out, I have a large, very large fur, with which I could cover you up entirely, and I have a mind to catch you in it as in a net. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

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

That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our
best. — Aldo Leopold

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

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

To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs. — Aldo Leopold

Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman? — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

In country, as in people, a plain exterior often conceals
hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with. — Aldo Leopold

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

Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations. — Leopold Trepper

At Spezia when I am angry I go full of smoke inside, but when you make me angry I see everything. — Elizabeth Bowen

A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

History is no criminal court — Leopold Von Ranke

I told my broker that as long as he doesn't tell me where my money should go, I won't tell him where he should go. — Leopold Fechtner

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals. — Aldo Leopold

Never had there been so rare a day, or so rich a solitude top spend it in. — Aldo Leopold