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Friend Right

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

- Aldo Leopold

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

- Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Aldo Leopold

First

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

- Aldo Leopold

Geese

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

- Aldo Leopold

May Love

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 love and respect.

- Aldo Leopold

Survival Beauty Wrong Right

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.

- Aldo Leopold

Development Mind Job

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

- Aldo Leopold

People

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

- Aldo Leopold

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Friend Man

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

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Friend Nothing

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

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Friend Want

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

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When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

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My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

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