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
safety long comfort
We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.
nature interesting long
There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and mower out of these idle spots, and the full native flora, plus dozens of interesting stowaways from foreign parts, could be part of the normal environment of every citizen.
song rivers long
The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.
long mountain conservation
Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.
economics last laws mark roads thinking
Mark this well, the laws of economics are the last thing the roads booster is thinking about
human job
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
real animal june
The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the June woods is in itself proof that dead trees are transmuted into living animals, and vice versa.
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.
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