Water Quotes by Aldo Leopold

11 Water quotes by Aldo Leopold

Aldo Leopold’s conservation wisdom flows through this eleven‑quote selection, giving you a compact taste of his reverence for water’s role in ecosystems.

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. . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in…

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I shall now confess to you that none of those three trout had to be beheaded, or folded double, to fit their…

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Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.

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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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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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The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job…

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This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing…

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Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is…

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My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively:…

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Hydrologists have demonstrated that the meanderings of a creek are a necessary part of the hydrologic functioning. The flood plain belongs to…

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This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible…

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

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

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

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

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Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

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If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and…

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This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all……

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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…

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Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.

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We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the…

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