High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs. A roadless marsh is seemingly… — 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
Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has… — 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
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
There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the… — 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
