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
rivers environmental conservation
In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.
art quality conservation
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.
fire mind conservation
Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.
government virtue conservation
Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .
long mountain conservation
Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.
moral evolution conservation
...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.
conservation interest land-conservation
Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.
ethically examine question terms
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.
exercise skills sportsmanship
Third, there is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called 'sportsmanship'. Our tools for the pursuit of wildlife improve faster than we do, and sportsmanship is the voluntary limitation in the use of these armaments. It is aimed to augment the role of skill and shrink the role of Gadgets in the pursuit of wild things.
cat eagles games
We Americans, in most states at least, have not yet experienced a bear-less, eagle-less, cat- less, wolf-less woods. Germany strove for maximum yields of both timber and game and got neither.
land two people
There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.
sun mourn species
For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.
philosophy journey land
I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.
funny science intelligent
The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts