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His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish.

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Aldo Leopold

There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of the great orchestra. These men are called professors. Each selects one instrument and spends his life taking it apart and describing its strings and sounding boards. This process of dismemberment is called research. The place for dismemberment is called a university.

Animal, Apart, Boards, Men, Orchestra, Sounding
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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.

Blessing, Healthy, Hypochondriac, Lying, Nothing, Stage

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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