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
discovery land television
The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.
world dull geese
What a dull world if we knew all about geese!
hunting wind fishing
How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!
respect nature community-living
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.
sunset sky two
No one would rather hunt woodcock in October than I, but since learning of the sky dance I find myself calling one or two birds enough. I must be sure that, come April, there be no dearth of dancers in the sunset sky.
taken sunset wind
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them
land lasts furniture
Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm.
country rivers water
. . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters . . . glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.
rivers environmental conservation
In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.
morning stars father
We realize the indivisibility of the earth-its soil, mountains, rivers, forests, climate, plants, and animals-and respect it collectively not only as a useful servant but as a living being, vastly greater than ourselves in time and space-a being that was old when the morning stars sang together, and when the last of us has been gathered unto his fathers, will still be young.
land rivers issues
Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic determinism is so habitual to Americans in discussing public questions that one must speak in the language of compound interest to get a hearing.
rivers museums environmental
We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.
land tinkering cogs
If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not...
eye views rivers
I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all except by some wandering deer. It is a river who wields the brush and it is the same river who before I can bring my friends to view his work erases it forever from human view. After that it exists only in my mind's eye.