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
nature men land
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
land tasks pieces
The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
hunting hunting-and-fishing wild-things
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.
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.
animal garden land
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
inspirational motivational hands
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
human job
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
real animal june
The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the June woods is in itself proof that dead trees are transmuted into living animals, and vice versa.
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.
economics last laws mark roads thinking
Mark this well, the laws of economics are the last thing the roads booster is thinking 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