Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopoldwas an American author, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac, which has sold more than two million copies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth11 January 1887
CityBurlington, IA
CountryUnited States of America
land unexpected assuming
Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.
doubt mind
Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.
names grace development
The only true development in American recreational resources is the development of the perceptive faculty in Americans. All of the other acts we grace by that name are, at best, attempts to retard or mask the process of dilution.
landscape portraits owners
The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.
spring solitude degrees
There are degrees and kinds of solitude. ... I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.
brother years land
In that year [1865] John Muir offered to buy from his brother ... a sanctuary for the wildflowers that had gladdened his youth. His brother declined to part with the land, but he could not suppress the idea: 1865 still stands in Wisconsin history as the birth-year of mercy for things natural, wild, and free.
wildlife administration profession
Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.
gone wildflowers easy
Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild.
law accomplishment tasks
I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the wilderness has been a good thing, its extermination would be a very bad one, and that the conservation of wilderness is the most urgent and difficult of all the tasks that confront us, because there are no economic laws to help and many to hinder its accomplishment.
awareness process trading
Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
garden tree forests
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
exercise hunting sportsmanship
There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.
average progress density
Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself, but not the capacity to live in high density without befouling and denuding his environment, nor a conviction that such capacity, rather than such density, is the true test of whether he is civilized.
loyalty intellectual important
No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.