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
In human cultures, the humble shall inherit the earth only if the earth is left to the humble.
The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, but in the days we all have before us.
We are building a bigger and better cage to keep ourselves in.
The 'key-log' which must be moved to release the economic binding on the forest is the resistance in the minds of people to a true conservation policy.
I have no hope for the future of our wildlife unless we educate the present generation.
The tragedy of our forests is that they are no longer wild.
Only the mountain has come to life. It is a mountain of many parts, yet one mountain.
This song of the greenwood is for the birds, and for me a sort of litany.
The fence-rows are the last retreat of the wild.
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not renew itself.
The proof that conservation has any economic value is in the fact that it pays.
Education is the seed of conservation.
I see the growth of plants as a struggle for existence among individuals.
The oak is the strongest tree in the world.
Thinking like a mountain means knowing that you are part of a larger ecosystem.
The wolf is the ecologist's symbol of the wild.
Leopold's rule: Save the parts, lose the whole.
In country, as in people, a plain design is best.
The geologist must be a good farmer, or he will not know his rocks.
Wild beauty is a kind of gold that never depreciates.