Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not... — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations — 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
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
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 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
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
There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong.… — 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
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
All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.… — 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
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
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
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
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
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 oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it. — 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
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
Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land. — 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
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
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
All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born. — 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 is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. — 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
This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing… — 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
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
Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share
Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share
He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share
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
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
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
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
If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share
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