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
ethically examine question terms
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.
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?
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
priorities challenges might
For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet sufficiently enlightened to realize that we must now challenge that dogma, or do without our wilderness? Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?
respect nature community-living
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.
conservation interest land-conservation
Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.
hunting wind fishing
How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!
new-relationship land people
Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.
mountain woods nine
Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.
philosophical mean land
It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a high regard for its value. By value, I of course mean something far broader than mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense.
nature opportunity important
For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.
nature interesting long
There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and mower out of these idle spots, and the full native flora, plus dozens of interesting stowaways from foreign parts, could be part of the normal environment of every citizen.
nature cities house
If in a city we had six vacant lots available to the youngsters of a certain neighborhood for playing ball, it might be "development" to build houses on the first, and the second, and the third, and the fourth, and even the fifth, but when we build houses on the last one, we forget what houses are for.