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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.
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- A Sand County Almanac, 1949
Six days shalt thou paddle and pack, but on the seventh thou shall wash thy socks.Our new camp is on a windswept rock point. … We don't know what lake we're on, and don't care ...Many of the attributes most distinctive of America and Americans are the impress of the wilderness. … Shall we now exterminate this thing that made us Americans?Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?What to do? I see only two courses open to the likes of us. One is to go live on locusts in the wilderness, if there is any wilderness left. The other is surreptitiously to set up within the econom...
No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.
A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There is a collection of essays published by Oxford University Press in 1949. Reprint editions include A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River (Oxford, 1966) and A Sand County Almanac Illustrated(Tamarack Press, 1977). P. references here pertain to the 1949 edition.
Jan 11, 2019 · Learn from the wisdom of Aldo Leopold, a pioneer of ecology and conservation, who wrote \"A Sand County Almanac\". Discover his insights on wilderness, land ethic, wildlife, and more.
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.
Aug 19, 2021 · Learn from the words of Aldo Leopold, a pioneer of wildlife management and ecological thinking. He wrote about the value of nature, the importance of predators, and the beauty of wild places in his book \"A Sand County Almanac\".
Find and explore quotes from A Sand County Almanac, a classic work of environmental writing by Aldo Leopold. Browse quotes by chapter, character, theme, and symbol, and get explanations and citations.
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