"I am glad I will not be young……" — Aldo Leopold

"I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness."

— Aldo Leopold

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136 Quotes by Aldo Leopold

Aldo Leopold has 136 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of…
The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward…
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.
Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and…
No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.
Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook,…
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we…
The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather…
Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility.…

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More Environmental Quotes

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An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but… — David Attenborough
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve -… — David Attenborough
All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say… — David Attenborough
If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids… — Margaret Atwood
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from… — John James Audubon
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. — Russell Baker
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. — Ansel Adams
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. — Edward Abbey
I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood… — Joe Barton
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was… — Cyrano de Bergerac
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To… — Wendell Berry
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. — Wendell Berry

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