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Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.

— Aldo Leopold

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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.

Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.

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