Best Aldo Leopold Quotations
- The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes of self-renewal have… Agriculture
- Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but… Addition
- Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution. Abstinence
- O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me Assist
- The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. Century
- There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a… Animal
- Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it. Education
- Our children are our signature to the roster of history; our land is merely the place our money was made. There is as yet no… Ails
- We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we… Abuse
- Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. Conservation
- A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. Beauty
- Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. Cannot Cherish
- One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring. Cleaving
- We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important… Absolute
- Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers. Awareness
- In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no… All
- Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. Aesthetically
- To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering. Cog
- There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. Funny
- What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map? Avail
- I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness. Environmental
- At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant. Blush
- The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive. Any
- On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds.… Arc
- There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other… Breakfast
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