To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.
– Aldo Leopold
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- I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness. – Aldo Leopold
- A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. – Aldo Leopold
- I am convinced that most Americans of the new generation have no idea what a decent forest looks like. The only way to tell them is to show them. – Aldo Leopold
- Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. – Aldo Leopold
- It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it. – Aldo Leopold
- The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: ‘What good is it? – Aldo Leopold
- That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics. – Aldo Leopold
- I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900. – Nick Hornby
- Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map. – Stephen King
- If the map doesn’t agree with the ground the map is wrong – Gordon Livingston
- The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there’s no room for romance anywhere. – Arthur Conan Doyle
- A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world. – Rebecca Solnit
- Who is the brave man–he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination. – Geraldine Brooks
- You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood… – Leopold von SacherMasoch
- If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless. – Darryl F Zanuck
- Guilt is a useless feeling. It’s never enough to make you change direction- only enough to paralyze you and make you… well, useless. – Daniel Nayeri
- Guilt is a useless feeling. It’s never enough to make you change direction–only enough to make you useless. – Daniel Nayeri
- Leopold, like most men of power and prestige, was not so much interested in listening to what others had to say as he was in having an audience. – Jeremy Robinson
- Build a valuable brand by branding what is valuable about you. – Ryan Lilly
- What we all must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are. – Edgar Z Friedenberg
- Man is not valuable because he loves God. Man is valuable because God loves him. – Helmut Thielicke
- A blank canvas is a playground for the imagination. – Marty Rubin
- The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer’s imagination. – JL Bond
- Without passion, the earth will be full of hollow bodies devoid of love, relationship, religion, art, science and technology – Val Uchendu
- Politics devoid of ethics does not further human welfare, and life without morality reduces humans to the level of beasts. – Dalai Lama XIV
- In a world devoid of towering political leaders, we seem to have become experts at growing idiots & elevating them to important positions. – Mamur Mustapha
- To be devoid of life is to lack spiritual dimension that brings heaven to earth – Sunday Adelaja
- True happiness is devoid of any illusion. – Dada Bhagwan
- A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. – Leopold Stokowski
- A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow. – Lev S Vygotsky
- Silence is a great companion when words are devoid of meanings. – Nema AlAraby
- Whenever a nation or a group of people is devoid of light, catastrophe comes, calamity hits, there is danger everywhere. – Sunday Adelaja
- Given a choice, I would never want a life totally devoid of pain, but life is meaningless without some sadness. – Auliq Ice
- Why do you put yourself in unsafe places? Because something in you feels fundamentally devoid of worth. – Olivia Laing
- The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards. – EM Forster
- It is only man’s egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. – Leopold von SacherMasoch
- It’s exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying. – Ron Suskind
- The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped,deserves to be whipped. – Leopold von SacherMasoch
- She had been nothing but a beloved bauble passed from a mother to a son, a decoration of vanity, devoid of identity. – D Morgenstern
- Engaging in activities devoid of difficulty, lounging in risk-free zones, is life without great meaning. – Jon M Huntsman Sr