Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.

Aldo Leopold
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  1. We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs. - Joseph Bruchac

  2. We are seeds as well as parasites to the earth. We can either give or take, depending on our perception of growth. - Zephyr McIntyre

  3. God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation. - Francis Bacon

  4. If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear. - E.a. Bucchianeri

  5. We are the ones we've been waiting for. - Colin Beavan

More Quotes By Aldo Leopold
  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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