Quotes of Aldo Leopold - somelinesforyou

“ A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than by a mob of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore 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

“ One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right only when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community, and the community includes the soil, waters, fauna, and flora, as well as people. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ 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. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. ”

- 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

“ Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. ”

- 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

“ There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering. ”

- Aldo Leopold
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