Best Aldo Leopold Words
- The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a… Aeons
- A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of the… Aware
- The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any… Almost Synonymous
- The modern dogma is comfort at any cost. Any
- One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land… Alone
- Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is… Action
- We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. All
- Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever,… Birthday
- Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as… Ability
- 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 wilderness… All
- The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it? Animal
- One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Alone
- Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us,… Awareness
- No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any… All
- We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since,… Agreed
- That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics. Basic
- He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps… Abundance
- 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 health… Better
- Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal. Behavior
- Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf. Howl
- This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one… Boiled
- To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—a very successful method of passing trouble from one… Any
- Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a… Began
- To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part. Blank
- Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals. Animal
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