People Quotes by Aldo Leopold

10 People quotes by Aldo Leopold

Aldo Leopold’s environmental ethic often circles back to people, and these ten brief notes highlight his belief in our responsibility toward each other and the earth. They’re succinct, yet they echo his larger moral vision.

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All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

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In country, as in people, a plain exterior often conceals hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with.

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It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.

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Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.

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There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.

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The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten…

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Conservationists have, I fear, adopted the pedagogical method of the prophets: we mutter darkly about impending doom if people don't mend their…

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Barring love and war, few enterprises are undertaken with such abandon, or by such diverse individuals, or with so paradoxical a mixture…

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Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as…

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The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically…

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He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

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The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

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