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Do not let anyone tell you that these people made work of play. They simply realized that the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.

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I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

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We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with lov...more

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Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hat...more

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That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

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One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence of the other. The one studies ...more

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The boundary between tame and wild exists only in the imperfections of the human mind.

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Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern wh...more

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One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible ...more

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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 co...more

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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.

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Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never...more

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To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

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The practices we now call conservation are, to a large extent, local alleviations of biotic pain. They are necessary, but they must not be confused wi...more

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Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet u...more