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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 be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are

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 be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

Aldo Leopold
Country, Men, Pioneers
Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.135, Oxford University Press

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

Aldo Leopold
Country, Jobs, Lovely
Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.26, Oxford University Press, USA

In country, as in people, a plain exterior often conceals hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with.

Aldo Leopold
Country, People, Riches
Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.30, Oxford University Press

In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too.

Aldo Leopold
Country, Real, Two
Aldo Leopold (2012). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.115, Island Press

To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs.

Aldo Leopold
Country, Thinking, Needs
Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.101, Oxford University Press, USA

Wilderness is a continuous stretch of country preserved in its natural state, open to lawful hunting and fishing, big enough to absorb a two weeks' pack trip, and kept devoid of roads, artificial trails, cottages, or other works of man.

Aldo Leopold
Country, Men, Hunting
Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.79, Univ of Wisconsin Press

. . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters . . . glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.

Aldo Leopold
Country, Rivers, Water

Two things hold promise of improving those lights. One is to apply science to land-use. The other is to cultivate a love of country a little less spangled with stars, and a little more imbued with that respect for mother-earth - the lack of which is, to me, the outstanding attribute of the machine-age.

Aldo Leopold
Country, Mother, Stars
Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.438, Library of America

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