That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, the stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may see it with love and respect. - Perhaps such… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively:… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share
Is it possible to preserve the element of Unknown Places in our national life? Is it practicable to do so, without undue loss in… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share
Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share
Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share
He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share
If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share
This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all…… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share
To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—a very successful method of passing trouble from… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share
If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share
