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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

“Our tools are better than we are, and grow better faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command the tides, but they do not suffice for the oldest task in human history, to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.”

“We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.”