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Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.

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Aldo Leopold

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

Civilization, Hammered, Man, Material, Men, Raw Materials
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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.

Deal, Fever, General, Hay Fever, Hobbies, Men

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.

Doctors, Healthy, Land, Original, People, Region

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.

Admit, Bigger, Character, Health, Wilderness, Yield

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.

Conservation, Enough, Howl, Long, Mountain
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