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- 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.
- Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. Aldo Leopold. Animal, Garden, Land.
- 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. Aldo Leopold.
- There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than. one rooted in pavements. Aldo Leopold. Doubt, Pavement, Soil.
- “I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.” ― Aldo Leopold.
- “One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen.
- “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 comes from the furnace.”
- “There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.” ― Aldo Leopold.
Feb 16, 2022 · Discover the wisdom and insights of Aldo Leopold, one of the first American conservationists and the founder of modern ecology. Read his quotes on the beauty, balance and value of nature, as well as his vision of a land ethic for humans.
- 'Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend;you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.'
- 'We abuse land because we see 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.'
- 'We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain.
- 'One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen.
- Teresa L. Scheid-Cook, Aldo Leopold
- 1949
- “One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen.
- “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 comes from the furnace.”
- “To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.” ― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There.
- “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 uncaptured by language.”
Mar 20, 2023 · Letter of April 11, 1917. Aldo Leopold ( January 11, 1887 – April 21, 1948) was a United States wildlife biologist and conservationist. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1949), which has sold more than two million copies.
Jan 14, 2021 · Learn from the environmental visionary and conservationist Aldo Leopold through his inspiring quotes on nature, ethics, and land. Explore his views on wilderness, hunting, and the land ethic in his famous book 'A Sand County Almanac'.
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