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
“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
A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the… — 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
There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“...it is disquieting to feel that the conversion into a National Forest or Park always means the esthetic death of a piece… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
We realize the indivisibility of the earth - its soil, mountains, rivers, forests, climate, plants, and animals - and respect it collectively… — 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
All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more… — 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
Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs . — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.” — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
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
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
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
A land ethic...reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Above all we should, in the century since Darwin, have come to know that man, while now captain of the adventuring ship,… — 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 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
