Aldo Leopold Quotes
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The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations
— Aldo Leopold
It is in midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines ... a curious transfusion of courage.
— Aldo Leopold
Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.
— Aldo Leopold
We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.
— Aldo Leopold
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring.
— Aldo Leopold
Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.
— Aldo Leopold
Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky.
— Aldo Leopold
Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.
— Aldo Leopold
Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.
— Aldo Leopold
The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.
— Aldo Leopold
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
— Aldo Leopold
Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.
— Aldo Leopold
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.
— Aldo Leopold
No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.
— Aldo Leopold
The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.
— Aldo Leopold
Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.
— Aldo Leopold
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.
— Aldo Leopold
The most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.
— Aldo Leopold
The boundary between tame and wild exists only in the imperfections of the human mind.
— Aldo Leopold
We grieve only for what we know.
— Aldo Leopold
A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct
— Aldo Leopold
Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.
— Aldo Leopold
Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.
— Aldo Leopold
What a dull world if we knew all about geese!
— Aldo Leopold
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
— Aldo Leopold
Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.
— Aldo Leopold
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
— Aldo Leopold
I love all trees, but I am in love with pines.
— Aldo Leopold
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.
— Aldo Leopold
Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.
— Aldo Leopold
The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.
— Aldo Leopold
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.
— Aldo Leopold
It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it.
— Aldo Leopold
Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.
— Aldo Leopold
Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run,
— Aldo Leopold
To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul - hope you like what you see.
— Aldo Leopold
The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.
— Aldo Leopold
Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.
— Aldo Leopold
The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.
— Aldo Leopold
In country, as in people, a plain exterior often concealshidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with. — Aldo Leopold
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.
— Aldo Leopold
Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands.
— Aldo Leopold
There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements. — Aldo Leopold
Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.
— Aldo Leopold
We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses
— Aldo Leopold
It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.
— Aldo Leopold
We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.
— Aldo Leopold
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow ... creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.
— Aldo Leopold
An oak is no respecter of persons.
— Aldo Leopold
That dark laboratory we call the soil.
— Aldo Leopold
In wildness is the salvation of the world,
— Aldo Leopold
Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.
— Aldo Leopold
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.
— Aldo Leopold
Camp-keeping in the Delta was not all beer and skittles.
— Aldo Leopold
If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not ...
— Aldo Leopold
Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.
— Aldo Leopold
Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.
— Aldo Leopold
