Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map? Aldo Leopold
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Mark Twain wrote in his essay "Man Always Kills the Thing He Loves." He is talking about how man has destroyed his natural beauty, and the only way to bring beauty back to the world is to preserve what we love. We must understand that our world is not perfect. The people who live here do not live in a perfect world. We are currently creating our own perfect world, but it will never be perfect.

There will always be flaws. Nature isn't perfect, either, but it's beautiful. And if we want to preserve beautiful things, we must keep them wild and natural.

Source: A Sand County Almanac And Sketches Here And There

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