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
doctors land people
Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism.
inspiring respect nature
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.
hunting hunting-and-fishing wild-things
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.
writing men thinking
I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks about while chopping, or while deciding what to chop. A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land.
rivers broken sun
A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.
nature ignorance men
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?
exercise skills negative
Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.
beauty nature integrity
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.
moral evolution conservation
...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.
nature land justice
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
respect land community
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.
cost faces wild-and-free
We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.
animal social attainment
Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
travel nature imagination
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.