Aldo Leopold Quotes (13 Quotes)


    To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

    Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

    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 love and respect.

    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.

    Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.


    One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

    Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

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

    This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all.... On a still night, whenthe campfire is low and the Pleiades have climbed over rimrocks, sit quietly and listen ... and think hard of everything you have seen andtried to understand. Then you may hear it a vast pulsing harmony its score inscribed on a thousand hills, its notes the lives and deaths ofplants and animals, its rhythms spanning the seconds and the centuries.

    We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

    All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.

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

    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.


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