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
thinking land community
I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.
might realizing poor
Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?
country jobs mind
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
dog moving heart
My dog does not care where heat comes from, but he cares that it comes, and soon. Indeed he considers my ability to make it come as something magical, for when I rise in the coal black pre-dawn and kneel by the hearth to make a fire, he pushes himself blandly between me and the kindling splits I have laid in the ashes, and I must touch a match to them by poking it between his legs. Such faith , I suppose, is the kind that moves mountains.
world salvation wildness
In wildness is the salvation of the world,
land privilege economic
The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations
art land vigor
The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born.
responsibility self land
A land ethic...reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land. Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal. Conservation is our effort to understand and preserve this capacity.
order records events
Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.
noses wilderness stealing
The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered place under everybody's nose
exercise hunting sportsmanship
There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.
garden tree forests
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
safety long comfort
We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.
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.