Born Quote by Aldo Leopold

I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other…

— Aldo Leopold

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

— Aldo Leopold

“There is an allegory for historians in the diverse functions of saw, wedge, and axe. The saw works only across the years, which it…

— Aldo Leopold

All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no…

— 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

“But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic…

— Aldo Leopold

“We forest officers, who acquiesced in the extinguishment of the bear, knew a local rancher who had plowed up a dagger engraved with the…

— Aldo Leopold

“Getting up too early is a vice habitual in horned owls, stars, geese, and freight trains. Some hunters acquire it from geese, and some…

— Aldo Leopold

There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of…

— Aldo Leopold

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

— Aldo Leopold

The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A…

— Aldo Leopold

A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of…

— Aldo Leopold