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Aldo Leopold Quotes: ...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.
         

...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.


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



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The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?



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There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.



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There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.



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