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
lying wilderness values
The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.
impossible wilderness creation
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.
anniversary nature spring
In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
good-life rivers perception
The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.
animal land water
My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land... In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such.
sky wings new-day
On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.
land tasks cracks
Our tools are better than we are, and grow better faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command the tides, but they do not suffice for the oldest task in human history, to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
hopeless should situation
That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.
maps wilderness blank
What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?
summer spring doe
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
flower opportunity speech
There are some of us who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese or wild flowers is a right as inalienable as free speech.
have-faith ethical relation
We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.
land people culture
The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any such thing as land, among whom education and culture have become almost synonymous with landlessness. This is the problem of conservation education.
world wounds
An Ecologist lives in a world of wounds.