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
lilies golden wilderness
It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it
sky navy solidarity
Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky.
art quality conservation
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.
men land impact
Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. 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. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the aesthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture
country real two
In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too.
brother years land
In that year [1865] John Muir offered to buy from his brother ... a sanctuary for the wildflowers that had gladdened his youth. His brother declined to part with the land, but he could not suppress the idea: 1865 still stands in Wisconsin history as the birth-year of mercy for things natural, wild, and free.
landscape portraits owners
The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.
wilderness resources grows
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.
country thinking needs
To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs.
dark soil laboratory
That dark laboratory we call the soil.
america stuff wilderness
Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.
country men hunting
Wilderness is a continuous stretch of country preserved in its natural state, open to lawful hunting and fishing, big enough to absorb a two weeks' pack trip, and kept devoid of roads, artificial trails, cottages, or other works of man.
land unexpected assuming
Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.
rivers each-day breakfast
Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to turn up each day before breakfast. Like the river, we were free to wander.