Community Quotes by Aldo Leopold

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an…

— Aldo Leopold

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

— Aldo Leopold

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

— Aldo Leopold

“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, the stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong…

— Aldo Leopold

I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever…

— Aldo Leopold

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which…

— Aldo Leopold

When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may see it with love and respect. - Perhaps such…

— Aldo Leopold

Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as…

— Aldo Leopold

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.…

— Aldo Leopold

The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically…

— Aldo Leopold

One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence…

— Aldo Leopold

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage…

— Aldo Leopold

My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively:…

— Aldo Leopold