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
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.
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.
have-faith ethical relation
We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.
maps wilderness blank
What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?
hopeless should situation
That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.
lilies golden wilderness
It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it