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Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.
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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