Animal Quote by Aldo Leopold

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

— Aldo Leopold

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of…

— Aldo Leopold

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

— Aldo Leopold

“That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of…

— Aldo Leopold

A land ethic...reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the…

— Aldo Leopold

I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It…

— Aldo Leopold

The 'key-log' which must be moved to release the evolutionary process for an ethic is simply this: quit thinking about decent land-use as solely…

— Land ethic

When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may see it with love and respect. - Perhaps such a shift…

— Aldo Leopold

There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land, like Odysseus'…

— Aldo Leopold

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments.

— David E. Cooper

An ethic that emphasizes relationship and community can be concerned with protecting the individual's interests, but always with an eye to trying to reconcile…

— David Wong