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

Aldo Leopold

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Aldo Leopold

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Aldo Leopold was an American author, philosopher and scientist. He is know for his work A Sand County Almanac (1949). He was a defender of biodiversity and ecology.

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" Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. "
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" The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself. "
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" Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches. "
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" Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt. "
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" Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilizat... "
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" Six days shalt thou paddle and pack, but on the seventh thou shall wash thy socks. "
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" Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of buildi... "
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" Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a que... "
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" In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial. "
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" An ethic to supplement and guide the economic relation to land presupposes the existence o... "
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" Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living... "
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" Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over... "
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" We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen fr... "
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" There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the... "
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" Land-use ethics are still governed wholly by economic self-interest, just as social ethics... "
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" Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master? "
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" Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild. "
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" That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best. "
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" The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it. "
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" That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and... "
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