Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
Aldo Leopold
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Aldo Leopold
Age: 60 †
Born: 1887
Born: January 1
Died: 1948
Died: January 1
Academic
Author
Botanical Collector
Ecologist
Environmentalist
Forestry Scientist
Naturalist
Philosopher
University Teacher
Burlington
Iowa
Aldo Starker Leopold
Rand Aldo Leopold
Environmental
Harmony
Environment
Land
State
Nature
Ecology
States
Conservation
Men
Preservation
More quotes by Aldo Leopold
An Ecologist lives in a world of wounds.
Aldo Leopold
A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of his land.
Aldo Leopold
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
Aldo Leopold
Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.
Aldo Leopold
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them
Aldo Leopold
O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me
Aldo Leopold
Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.
Aldo Leopold
Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic determinism is so habitual to Americans in discussing public questions that one must speak in the language of compound interest to get a hearing.
Aldo Leopold
When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.
Aldo Leopold
Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.
Aldo Leopold
Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven one may never get there.
Aldo Leopold
We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.
Aldo Leopold
I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. And perhaps with better cause, for while a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a range pulled down by too many deer may fail of replacement in as many decades.
Aldo Leopold
The only true development in American recreational resources is the development of the perceptive faculty in Americans. All of the other acts we grace by that name are, at best, attempts to retard or mask the process of dilution.
Aldo Leopold
I love all trees, but I am in love with pines.
Aldo Leopold
To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul - hope you like what you see.
Aldo Leopold
No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.
Aldo Leopold
Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry.
Aldo Leopold
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
Aldo Leopold
The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.
Aldo Leopold
