"Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social……" — Aldo Leopold

"Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals."

— 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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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know… — David Attenborough
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how… — David Attenborough
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I… — David Attenborough
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in… — David Attenborough
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware… — David Attenborough

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