Administration Quote by Aldo Leopold

A profession is a body of men who voluntarily measure their work by a higher standard than their clients demand. To be professionally acceptable,…

— Aldo Leopold

Third, there is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called 'sportsmanship'. Our tools for the pursuit of wildlife improve faster…

— Aldo Leopold

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

— Aldo Leopold

“To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs. A roadless marsh is seemingly as worthless…

— Aldo Leopold

“Unsportsmanlike predator-killing is always rationalized as defence of property—usually someone else’s property. This excuse is getting too thin to pass muster among thinking conservationists.”

— Aldo Leopold

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow. Invasions can be arrested or modified in a manner to keep an area usable…

— Aldo Leopold

“People who have never canoed a wild river, or who have done so only with a guide in the stern, are apt to assume…

— Aldo Leopold

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct

— Aldo Leopold

“In the narrow thread of sod between the shaved banks and the toppling fences grow the relics of what once was Illinois — the…

— Aldo Leopold

“The smaller the creature, the bolder its spirit.”

— Suzy Kassem

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been…

— Peter Benchley

“The future of wildlife and the habitat that they depend on is being destroyed. It is time to make nature and all the beauty…

— Paul Oxton