Aldo Leopold Quotes

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.

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

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

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

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

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.