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No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.

No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.

Approximate author period: c. 1917 AD · modern

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Aldo Leopold
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Approximate author period: c. 1917 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Aldo Leopold: life dates 1887 to 1948. Wikidata Q971382, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q971382 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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