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• This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one can cast his eye upon the hills and see hard-boiled farmers who have spent their lives destroying land now carrying water by hand to their new plantations

  Aldo Leopold

  Pain, Disappointment, Mistake

  Aldo Leopold (2012). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.53, Island Press

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• The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered place under everybody's nose

  Aldo Leopold

  Noses, Wilderness, Stealing

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.57, Oxford University Press

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• That dark laboratory we call the soil.

  Aldo Leopold

  Dark, Soil, Laboratory

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.112, Library of America

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• What a dull world if we knew all about geese!

  Aldo Leopold

  World, Dull, Geese

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.25, Oxford University Press

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• Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Unexpected, Study

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.172, Oxford University Press

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• The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land
  health is yet to be born.

  Aldo Leopold

  Art, Land, Vigor

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.230, Library of America

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• The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Privilege, Economic

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.182, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.

  Aldo Leopold

  Order, Events, Records

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• There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of the great orchestra. These men are called professors. Each selects one instrument and spends his life taking it apart and describing its strings and sounding boards. This process of dismemberment is called research. The place for dismemberment is called a university.

  Aldo Leopold

  Animal, Men, Boards

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.188, Library of America

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• Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.

  Aldo Leopold

  Administration, Wildlife, Profession

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.246, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind.

  Aldo Leopold

  Mind, Causes, Records

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.168, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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