Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the … - Aldo Leopold

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My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names. . . but my Dad always called me Mick.

Aldo Leopold

Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.

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Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.

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Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism.

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Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us.

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But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy. . . . Nothing could be more salutary at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings.

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Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.

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Mickey Spillane

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names. . . but my Dad always called me Mick.

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Victor Hugo

Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau. ] - Gavroche

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Travis Tritt

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

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Stephen Dorff

Living at the beach, it's hard to get out of the sun.

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Christina Romer

There's a joke in economics about the drunk who loses his keys in the street but only looks for them under the lightposts. When asked why, he says, 'because that's where the light is. ' That's the problem with the deficit.

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