Aldo Leopold
Author of A Sand County Almanac who advocated a land ethic, declaring that a thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity of the biotic community.
Quotes by Aldo Leopold
The land is a poem, and we are its words.
The land is a dream, and we are its dreamers.
The land is a mystery, and we are its seekers.
The land is a gift, and we are its guardians.
The land is a trust, and we are its trustees.
The land is a heritage, and we are its inheritors.
The land is a legacy, and we are its beneficiaries.
The land is a responsibility, and we are its stewards.
The land is a challenge, and we are its answer.
The land is a hope, and we are its future.
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone, a lot anyhow.
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the civilization he inhabits.
An ethic, ecologically, is a limitation on freedom of action in the struggle for existence.
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this limitation by changing agents rather than identities.
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them.
A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of the land.
The first right of every animal is to be cared for.
The problem of wildlife conservation is not one of acquiring more land, but of keeping what we have properly managed.
I am glad I shall not be young in a future without wilderness.
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.