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“Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.”
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“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.”
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
“Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.”
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
“Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.”
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“The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.”
― Round River: From the Journals of Aldo Leopold
― Round River: From the Journals of Aldo Leopold
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