Aldo Leopold Quotes

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Do not let anyone tell you that these people made work of play. They simply realized that the most f...

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community t...

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... creation of new wilderness in the full sen...

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his ...

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected...

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of thes...

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely awa...

The boundary between tame and wild exists only in the imperfections of the human mind.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trade...

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his l...

Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of i...

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is econ...

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much o...

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast ...

The three species of pine native to Wisconsin (white, red and jack) differ radically in their opinio...

When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as ...

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic communi...

Above all we should, in the century since Darwin, have come to know that man, while now captain of t...

Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we ...

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valu...

The practices we now call conservation are, to a large extent, local alleviations of biotic pain. Th...

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through suc...

No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never...

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain t...

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this re...

This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mist...

We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or libe...

I am convinced that most Americans of the new generation have no idea what a decent forest looks lik...