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
character yield wilderness
Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us.
noses wilderness stealing
The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered place under everybody's nose
self cherish wilderness
All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.
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
wilderness resources grows
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.
america stuff wilderness
Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.
fighting wilderness left
If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left worth fighting for.
lying wilderness values
The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.
impossible wilderness creation
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.
maps wilderness blank
What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?
nature environmental wilderness
I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.
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.