The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive. — 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
In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Science contributes moral as well as material blessings to the world. Its great moral contribution is objectivity, or the scientific point of… — 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
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
This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be… — 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
But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To… — 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
