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Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

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Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238) Quotes

“In that year [1865] John Muir offered to buy from his brother ... a sanctuary for the wildflowers that had gladdened his youth. His brother declined to part with the land, but he could not suppress the idea: 1865 still stands in Wisconsin history as the birth-year of mercy for things natural, wild, and free.”

“Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very diverse. The differences in the product are known as cultures. The rich diversity of the worlds cultures reflects a corresponding diversity. In the wilds that gave them birth.”