Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how.

Aldo Leopold
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  1. One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science...

  2. One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

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