Aldo Leopold Quotes

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

The land changes and changes us, but we must change it too.

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.

A good land ethic is one that creates a sustainable future for all living beings.

The land is not something that we can own, but something that we are a part of.

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.

No fundamental change in our stewardship of land and planet is possible without a change in the kind of consciousness that produced the problems in the first place.

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

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

We must learn to think like a mountain if we are to live in harmony with the Earth.

When we heal the land, we heal ourselves.

The land is a living organism, and our actions can either heal or harm it.

Conservation is a way of life, not just a passing trend.

Only when we see land as more than a means of production will we truly appreciate its value.

The land is the source of all life; without it, we have nothing.

In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.

Aldo Leopold Quotes part 2

We are all interconnected in the web of life; what affects one species affects us all.

Nature is not something outside of us; it is a part of us.

Every act of eating or using a resource is an opportunity to make a conscious choice that reflects our values.

There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.

A wild animal never kills for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins as in art with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness.

In our attempt to make conservation easy and popular, we have concealed the true nature of conservation.

To be a conservationist, one must live in accordance with the principles of conservation.

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

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.

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.

Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

Conservation means harmonious relationship between man and land.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

The more we can sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.