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.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was a man who was willing to work for the betterment of people. He knew that one person can make a difference in this world, and he urged people to work toward the greater good, by making small changes here and there. He said that if we can just get a few people to do something, then it will add up and there will be a change in the world.

Source: Round River: From The Journals Of 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...

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