Is it possible to preserve the element of Unknown Places in our national life? Is it practicable to do so, without undue… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land,… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its… — 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 Image
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 Image
Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
