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
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.
writing land faces
A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of the land.
yield doe pay
Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.
safety long comfort
We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.
lying blessing healthy
But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy. . . . Nothing could be more salutary at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings.
pain disappointment mistake
This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one can cast his eye upon the hills and see hard-boiled farmers who have spent their lives destroying land now carrying water by hand to their new plantations
successful rivers speech
To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—a very successful method of passing trouble from one place to the next. It solves nothing in any collective sense.
taken sunset wind
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them
blind one-thing
Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.
land ezekiel belief
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.
time done
There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.
diversity culture world
The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.
order records events
Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.
animal garden land
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.