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Animal Quotes by Aldo Leopold
- All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. . . The…
- Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
- This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all.... On…
- Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.
- 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…
- We realize the indivisibility of the earth-its soil, mountains, rivers, forests, climate, plants, and animals-and respect it collectively not only as a useful servant but…
- One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence of the other.…
- There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land, like Odysseus' slave-girls,…
- 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…
- 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…
- The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?
- Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
More Animal Quotes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated… — David Attenborough
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you… — David Attenborough