Aldo Leopold Quotes & Sayings
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A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct —
Aldo Leopold

The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. —
Aldo Leopold

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. —
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

Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another. —
Aldo Leopold

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. —
Aldo Leopold

Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild. —
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

Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs . —
Aldo Leopold

No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions. —
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

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. —
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

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. —
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

To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs. —
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 conceals
hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with. —
Aldo Leopold

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial. —
Aldo Leopold

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals. —
Aldo Leopold

Never had there been so rare a day, or so rich a solitude top spend it in. —
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

That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our
best. —
Aldo Leopold

Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands. —
Aldo Leopold

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. —
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

It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature. —
Aldo Leopold

Obligations have no meaning without conscience, and the problem we face is the extension of the social conscience from people to the land —
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

To any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution. —
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

The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself. —
Aldo Leopold

Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think. —
Aldo Leopold

Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf. —
Aldo Leopold

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you. —
Aldo Leopold

For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. —
Aldo Leopold

I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey. —
Aldo Leopold