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
travel nature imagination
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.
beauty nature integrity
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
believe land doctors
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.
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.
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
ethically examine question terms
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.