Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom… — 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… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“The question is, does the educated citizen know he is only a cog in an ecological mechanism? That if he will work… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. An ecologist must either… — 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
“Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth?” — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies,… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of… — 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
