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Henry David Thoreau photo

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Variant: The only remedy for love is to love more.

Andy Warhol photo
Terry Pratchett photo

“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”

Source: Hogfather

“If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

John Buchan photo

“The Simple Life is the last refuge of complicated and restless souls.”

Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. I, p. 22

John Buchan photo

“Happiness lies only in a divine unrest; and if you are lapped in comfort you stagnate and miss it.”

Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. I, p. 23

John Buchan photo

“The secret of life is to find out what one really wants.”

Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. II, p. 43

David Almond photo
David Almond photo
Henryk Sienkiewicz photo
Aldo Leopold photo
Aldo Leopold photo

“It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.”

“Arizona and New Mexico: On Top”, p. 126.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Arizona and New Mexico: On Top," & "Arizona and New Mexico: Thinking Like a Mountain"

Aldo Leopold photo

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

Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Wilderness", p. 188.

Aldo Leopold photo

“Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.”

Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Conservation Esthetic", p. 165.

Aldo Leopold photo
Aldo Leopold photo

“What a dull world if we knew all about geese!”

“March: The Geese Return”, p. 20.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "January Thaw", "February: Good Oak" & "March: The Geese Return"

Aldo Leopold photo
Aldo Leopold photo

“He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowingly. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.”

“April: Draba”, p. 26.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "April: Come High Water," "April: Draba," "April: Bur Oak," & "April:Sky Dance"

Aldo Leopold photo
Aldo Leopold photo

“To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.”

Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Conservation Esthetic", p. 176.
Source: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
Context: The trophy-recreationist has peculiarities that contribute in subtle ways to his own undoing. To enjoy he must possess, invade, appropriate. Hence the wilderness that he cannot personally see has no value to him. Hence the universal assumption that an unused hinterland is rendering no service to society. To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.