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Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

~Aldo Leopold

Topics: Between Conservation Harmony Land Men State

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We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

~Aldo Leopold

Topics: Abuse Because Begin Belong Belonging Commodity Community Land Love May Regard Respect See Us Use Which

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Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

~Aldo Leopold

Topics: Cannot Cherish Chop Friend Hand Harmony His Land Left Like Off Right Right Hand You

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A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

~Aldo Leopold

Topics: Beauty Community Integrity Otherwise Preserve Right Stability Tends Thing Wrong

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We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

~Aldo Leopold

Topics: Absolute Achieve Any Aspirations Harmony Higher Important Important Thing Justice Land Liberty More Never People Shall Strive Than Thing

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To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

~Aldo Leopold

Topics: Cog Every First Intelligent Keep Precaution Wheel

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In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

~Aldo Leopold

Topics: Anniversary Buds Burst Day Dozen Heed Ignore June Man Many May Single Single Day Species Them

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Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

~Aldo Leopold

Topics: Building Country Development Human Human Mind Job Lovely Mind Recreational Roads Still

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

~Aldo Leopold

Topics: Does Geese Make March Spring Summer Swallow

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Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

~Aldo Leopold

Topics: Aesthetically Each Economically Ethically Examine Expedient Question Right Terms Well

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Environmentalist

Born: January 11th, 1887

Died: April 21st, 1948

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