"The modern dogma is comfort at any cost." — Aldo Leopold

"The modern dogma is comfort at any cost."

— Aldo Leopold

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136 Quotes by Aldo Leopold

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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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