Best Aldo Leopold Quotes
- What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to… Avocation
- Our tools are better than we are, and grow better faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command the tides, but… Atom
- I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves… Community
- Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master? Been
- There are some of us who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese or… Flower
- A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct Applaud
- The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered… Been
- Third, there is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called 'sportsmanship'. Our tools for the pursuit of wildlife improve faster than… Aimed
- Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events. Chance
- Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many… Fear
- The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it. History
- The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations Economic
- In wildness is the salvation of the world, Inspirational
- My dog does not care where heat comes from, but he cares that it comes, and soon. Indeed he considers my ability to make it… Ability
- Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all offered as aids… Aggregate
- My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land... In… Animal
- Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which deprived us of… Add
- Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you… Build
- To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul - hope you like what you see. Eye
- Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal. Capacity
- Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible. Creation
- He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance. Abundance
- Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them Began
- Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to… Chop
- . . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters .… Canoe
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