Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“...it is disquieting to feel that the conversion into a National Forest or Park always means the esthetic death of a piece… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet… — 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
Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The elemental simplicities of wilderness travel were thrills. They represented complete freedom to make mistakes. The wilderness gave those rewards and penalties,… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to… — 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… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material.… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow. Invasions can be arrested or modified in a manner to keep an… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. I… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Wilderness is a continuous stretch of country preserved in its natural state, open to lawful hunting and fishing, big enough to absorb… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap… — 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
