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Quote by Aldo Leopold
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stabilit

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. – Aldo Leopold

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Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers. – Aldo Leopold

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Education
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Aldo Leopold
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The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land. – Aldo Leopold

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Conservation
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Aldo Leopold
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There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. – Aldo Leopold

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Gardens
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Aldo Leopold
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In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. – Christopher Morley

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A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space. – Clarence Stein

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For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places. – David Rittenhouse

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Beauty

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. – John Muir

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Beauty

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They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money. – George Savile, Complete Works, 1912

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Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, dont complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Dont bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! – Bob Marley

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Wisdom is a sacred communion. – Victor Hugo

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I could eat alphabet soup and shit better lyrics. – Johnny Mercer, on a British musical

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