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When we hear [the crane’s] call we hear no mere bird. We hear the trumpet in the orchestra of evolution. He is the symbol of our untamable past, of that incredible sweep of millennia which underlies and conditions the daily affairs of birds and men.

— 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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