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
doctors land people
Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism.
land two people
There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.
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.
humility land intellectual
Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he has already discovered what is important.
animal self land
Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.
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.
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.
writing land faces
A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of the land.
land-use term wells
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.
land ezekiel belief
Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.
new-relationship land people
Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.
philosophical mean land
It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a high regard for its value. By value, I of course mean something far broader than mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense.