Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Two things hold promise of improving those lights. One is to apply science to land-use. The other is to cultivate a love… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. An ecologist must either… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Science contributes moral as well as material blessings to the world. Its great moral contribution is objectivity, or the scientific point of… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“These wild things, I admit, had little human value until mechanization assured us of a good breakfast, and until science disclosed the… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Do not let anyone tell you that these people made work of play. They simply realized that the most fun lies in… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“The question is, does the educated citizen know he is only a cog in an ecological mechanism? That if he will work… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high… — 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
