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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

Other quotes by Aldo Leopold

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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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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Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. – Aldo Leopold

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environmental
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Aldo Leopold
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Beauty
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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. – Benjamin Britten

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Beauty

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty I woke and found that life was duty. – George Byron

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Beauty

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. – Northrop Frye

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Beauty

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. – Charles Baudelaire

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Beauty

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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. – Abraham Lincoln

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One of the things thats great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making. – Sarah Jessica Parker

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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. – Dalai Lama

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