Environment Quote by Aldo Leopold

Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity…

— Aldo Leopold

“We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong,…

— Aldo Leopold

Without love of the land, conservation lacks meaning or purpose, for only in a deep and inherent feeling for the land can there be…

— Sigurd F. Olson

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong,…

— Aldo Leopold

“Too many land users and too many conservationists seem to have accepted the doctrine that the availability of goods is determined by the availability…

— Wendell Berry

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong,…

— Aldo Leopold

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

— Aldo Leopold

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

— Aldo Leopold

Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.

— Aldo Leopold

The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is…

— Aldo Leopold