Leslie A.

“Pooh!" she exclaimed. "Fancy asking a woman to be reasonable!”
― E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Double Traitor

“All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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