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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
“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.”
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“Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.”
― Round River: From the Journals of Aldo Leopold
― Round River: From the Journals of Aldo Leopold
“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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