“A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than by a mob of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact.”

— Aldo Leopold, book A Sand County Almanac

Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Wildlife in American Culture", p. 178.

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