Authors
Aldo Leopold Quotes
Best Quotes by Aldo Leopold (Top 10)
-
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 that heat comes from the furnace.
Aldo Leopold -
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.
Aldo Leopold -
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.
Aldo Leopold -
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 is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.
Aldo Leopold -
Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.
Aldo Leopold -
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.
Aldo Leopold -
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?
Aldo Leopold -
Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
Aldo Leopold -
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
Aldo Leopold -
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 still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.
Aldo Leopold
More Aldo Leopold Quotes
-
We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
Aldo Leopold -
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
Aldo Leopold -
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.
Aldo Leopold -
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 left to cherish.
Aldo Leopold -
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
Aldo Leopold -
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
Aldo Leopold -
Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.
Aldo Leopold -
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.
Aldo Leopold -
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.
Aldo Leopold -
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.
Aldo Leopold -
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.
Aldo Leopold