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Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#between #conservation #harmony #land #men

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

#achieve #any #aspirations #harmony #higher

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#anniversaries #buds #burst #day #dozen

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

#country #development #human #human mind #into

The Thirties are a great mix of everyday glamour and something a bit more practical. ↗

— Nanette Lepore

#everyday #glamour #great #mix #more

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea. ↗

— Mikhail Lermontov

#calm #many #none #river #sea

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism. ↗

— Alan Jay Lerner

#coughing #criticism #respiratory #theater

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. ↗

— Alan Jay Lerner

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The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move. ↗

— Max Lerner

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In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. ↗

— Max Lerner

#civilization #consumers #get #our #ourselves