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When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.

— 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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