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That biological jack-of-all-trades called ecologist tries to be and do all these things. Needless to say, he does not succeed.

— 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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