The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it? — 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
A profession is a body of men who voluntarily measure their work by a higher standard than their clients demand. To be… — 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
Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Ideas, like men, can become dictators. We Americans have so far escaped regimentation by our rulers, but have we escaped regimentation by… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Wilderness is a continuous stretch of country preserved in its natural state, open to lawful hunting and fishing, big enough to absorb… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search… — 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
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
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material.… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies,… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes… — 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
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
