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
Aldo Leopold quotes about
cannot cherish chop environment hand harmony land left
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left
economics last laws mark roads thinking
Mark this well, the laws of economics are the last thing the roads booster is thinking about
land practice pieces
What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land?
ethically examine question terms
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.
conservation interest land-conservation
Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.
new-relationship land people
Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.
landscape portraits owners
The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.
wildlife administration profession
Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.
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.
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.
time done
There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.
land creating tree
When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.
persons oaks
An oak is no respecter of persons.
land self renewal
Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.