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
If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely… — 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
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it? — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful… — 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
Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Getting up too early is a vice habitual in horned owls, stars, geese, and freight trains. Some hunters acquire it from geese,… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“...it is disquieting to feel that the conversion into a National Forest or Park always means the esthetic death of a piece… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“We forest officers, who acquiesced in the extinguishment of the bear, knew a local rancher who had plowed up a dagger engraved… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
We realize the indivisibility of the earth - its soil, mountains, rivers, forests, climate, plants, and animals - and respect it collectively… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is… — 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
Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to… — 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
Barring love and war, few enterprises are undertaken with such abandon, or by such diverse individuals, or with so paradoxical a mixture… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The elemental simplicities of wilderness travel were thrills. They represented complete freedom to make mistakes. The wilderness gave those rewards and penalties,… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“There is an allegory for historians in the diverse functions of saw, wedge, and axe. The saw works only across the years,… — 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
