Plants and animals Quotes by Aldo Leopold

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

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

Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands.

— Aldo Leopold

Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild.

— Aldo Leopold

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

— Aldo Leopold

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

— Aldo Leopold

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

— Aldo Leopold

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

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

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

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.

— Aldo Leopold

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

Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.

— Aldo Leopold

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

— Aldo Leopold

If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United…

— Aldo Leopold