"There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot."

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Source : Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

Aldo Leopold

#Wild Things Quotes

“I will be the focal point for however long I decide to play. Half of me likes that idea and half of me doesn't, but once the adrenaline kicks in, I'll probably really enjoy it.”
“Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.”
“If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.”

Source : "PROFILE: Helen Clark, new chief of UN Development Programme" by David Barber, Asia-Pacific News, March 26, 2009.
“We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.”

Source : "Railways in the fresh air", www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2004.
“Sometimes you can incorporate things that you've experienced in your life and use that. And other times you know what that feeling is of hurt, of love, of anger, of depression, and you do whatever it takes to get there in your mind and use it to your advantage, whichever way it works best.”
“I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world by killing and shooting. You have the change it by creating and competing.”
“I was never afraid of failure. I realized that I was responsible for my own success and that every day offers a new beginning and I was confident in my ability to improve.”
“The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.”

Source : Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

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