History Quotes by Aldo Leopold

11 History quotes by Aldo Leopold

Leopold’s reflections on History tie ecological awareness to human progress. These eleven quotes give a concise sense of his belief that understanding the past is key to sustainable stewardship.

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The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

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Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.

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Our tools are better than we are, and grow better faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command…

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We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a…

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For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet…

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All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search…

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Our children are our signature to the roster of history; our land is merely the place our money was made. There is…

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“We forest officers, who acquiesced in the extinguishment of the bear, knew a local rancher who had plowed up a dagger engraved…

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If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add…

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

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“There is an allegory for historians in the diverse functions of saw, wedge, and axe. The saw works only across the years,…

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Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands.

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He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

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Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

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This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all……

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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…

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Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.

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We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the…

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Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.

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The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

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If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United…

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