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
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
There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel. — 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
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
My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively:… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken… — 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
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
We realize the indivisibility of the earth-its soil, mountains, rivers, forests, climate, plants, and animals-and respect it collectively not only as a… — 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
Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land. — 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
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe… — 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
