“Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Our tools are better than we are, and grow better faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all… — 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
Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow. Invasions can be arrested or modified in a manner to keep an… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not… — 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
