About Aldo Leopold: Aldo Leopold is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1949), which has sold more than two million copies.
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. That lands yields a cultural harvest is a fact long known, but latterly often forgotten.
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to perserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends...
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. The one studies the human community, almost as if it were a separate entity, and calls its findings sociology, econo...
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.
Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
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 may begin to use it with love and respect.
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 man can ignore all of them.
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.
I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.
Do not let anyone tell you that these people made work of play. They simply realized that the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.
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 cannot love game and hate predators... The land is one organism.
Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he has already discovered what is important; it is s...
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?
