"Do not let anyone tell you that these people made work of play. They simply realized that the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.
I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.
~ Aldo Leopold ~
Photo by Ákos Szabó
Photo by Ian Turnell
I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.
More Aldo Leopold quotes
"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with lov...
"Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.
"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hat...
"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.
"The boundary between tame and wild exists only in the imperfections of the human mind.
"Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern wh...
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"There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat co...
"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.
"Above all we should, in the century since Darwin, have come to know that man, while now captain of the adventuring ship, is hardly the sole object of ...
"Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never...
"To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.
"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 u...
"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...