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
humility land intellectual
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.
philosophy journey land
I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.
sun mourn species
For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.
land two people
There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.
cat eagles games
We Americans, in most states at least, have not yet experienced a bear-less, eagle-less, cat- less, wolf-less woods. Germany strove for maximum yields of both timber and game and got neither.
animal self land
Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.
might realizing poor
Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?
hunting hunters peculiar
A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct
noses wilderness stealing
The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered place under everybody's nose
exercise skills sportsmanship
Third, there is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called 'sportsmanship'. Our tools for the pursuit of wildlife improve faster than we do, and sportsmanship is the voluntary limitation in the use of these armaments. It is aimed to augment the role of skill and shrink the role of Gadgets in the pursuit of wild things.
self cherish wilderness
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.
land-use term wells
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.
nature intelligent tinkering
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
useless firsts hobbies
At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.