Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as… — 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
The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations — 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
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may see it with love and respect. - Perhaps such… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is… — 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
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
I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Our children are our signature to the roster of history; our land is merely the place our money was made. There is… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The drama of the sky dance is enacted nightly on hundreds of farms, the owners of which sigh for entertainment, but harbor… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land. — 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
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land. — 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
