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  • #1
    Aldo Leopold
    “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.”
    Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

  • #2
    Aldo Leopold
    “Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.”
    Aldo Leopold

  • #3
    Aldo Leopold
    “There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.”
    Aldo Leopold

  • #4
    Aldo Leopold
    “There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.”
    Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

  • #5
    John Muir
    “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
    John Muir

  • #6
    Paul Schullery
    “Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.”
    Paul Schullery

  • #7
    Carl Sagan
    “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos

  • #8
    Carl Sagan
    “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
    Carl Sagan

  • #9
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #12
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #13
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #14
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #16
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #17
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #18
    John Muir
    “Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”
    John Muir

  • #19
    John Muir
    “Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.”
    John Muir

  • #20
    John Muir
    “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”
    John Muir

  • #21
    John Muir
    “When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world.”
    John Muir

  • #22
    John Muir
    “Nothing truly wild is unclean.”
    John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra

  • #23
    John Muir
    “Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress...”
    John Muir

  • #24
    Daniel J. Rice
    “It has always been my understanding that truth and freedom can only exist in wild places.”
    Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness



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