Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky.
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
Sky
Among
Hemispheric
Navies
Feathered
Statesmen
Navy
Solidarity
More quotes by Aldo Leopold
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.
Aldo Leopold
For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.
Aldo Leopold
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.
Aldo Leopold
What a dull world if we knew all about geese!
Aldo Leopold
Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing.
Aldo Leopold
No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.
Aldo Leopold
A profession is a body of men who voluntarily measure their work by a higher standard than their clients demand. To be professionally acceptable, a policy must be sound as well as salable. Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.
Aldo Leopold
But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy. . . . Nothing could be more salutary at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings.
Aldo Leopold
A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.
Aldo Leopold
To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs.
Aldo Leopold
There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.
Aldo Leopold
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.
Aldo Leopold
Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.
Aldo Leopold
Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.
Aldo Leopold
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
Aldo Leopold
We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.
Aldo Leopold
Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.
Aldo Leopold
The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music and the preservation of some music to perceive.
Aldo Leopold
The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy - it is already too late for that - but in creating a better understanding of the extent of that influence and a new ethic for its governance.
Aldo Leopold
Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?
Aldo Leopold
