Aldo Leopold Quotes
Top 90 wise famous quotes and sayings by Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Aldo Leopold on Wise Famous Quotes.
We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring.
Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.
At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.
What the youth needs to be told is that a ship is a-building in his own mental dry dock, a ship with freedom of the seas.
No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.
The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.
Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of the land.
A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct
The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.
Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm.
Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.
Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .
No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.
The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.
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.
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.
It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it.
In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.
The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.
In country, as in people, a plain exterior often conceals
hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with.
hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with.
A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.
The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not.
There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than
one rooted in pavements.
one rooted in pavements.
Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.
We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses
We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow ... creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.
Obligations have no meaning without conscience, and the problem we face is the extension of the social conscience from people to the land
Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.
They know no urge of seasons; they feel no kiss of sun, no lash of wind and weather. They live forever by not living at all.
To any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.
If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not ...
Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.
Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.