« All Arcs Quotes
·
Aldo Leopold's Page
Arcs Quotes by Aldo Leopold
1 Arcs quote by Aldo Leopold
More Quotes by Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold has 137 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.…
-
The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing…
-
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
-
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
-
There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.
-
Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high…
-
No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.
-
Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to…
-
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
-
For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet…
-
The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the…
-
Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded…
See all 137 quotes by Aldo Leopold »
More Arcs Quotes
Popular Arcs quotes from across the collection:
-
The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
— Rob Bell
-
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
— Robert Browning
-
Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
— Charles Bukowski
-
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
-
Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
— Martin Amis
-
The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't…
— Pema Chodron
-
Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who have died…
— Dave Barry
-
Each arc of color may be lovely to behold, but it is the full spectrum of our woman rainbow that glows with…
— Merlin Stone
-
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced…
— Hermann von Helmholtz
-
Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something or grow…
— Nancy Kress
-
When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
-
He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now…
— Dante Alighieri
See all Arcs Quotes »
Browse Aldo Leopold Quotes by Category