Aldo Leopold Quotes

Aldo Leopold (11)

Birth:	18th January, 1887
Death:	21st April, 1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Environmentalist, Scientist

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Aldo Leopold was an American author, scientist ecologist, forester, and environmentalist. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1949), which has sold over two million copies. He was influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement for wilderness conservation. His ethics of nature and wildlife preservation had a profound impact on the environmental movement, with his biocentric or holistic ethics regarding land.He emphasized biodiversity and ecology and was a founder of the science of wildlife management.

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• Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

  Aldo Leopold

  Topics in Environment

  Tags in Environmental, Conservation, Land, Men

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

  Aldo Leopold

  Topics in Environment

  Tags in Environmental, Cherish, Friend, Hand, Land, Like, Chop

• 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

• Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

  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

• 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.

  Aldo Leopold

• 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

• 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

  Topics in Nature

• 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.

  Aldo Leopold

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