Aldo Leopold Quotes About Conservation

Quotes about: Conservation

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  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

  Inspiring, Respect, Nature

  A Sand County Almanac foreword (1949)

• To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Travel, Imagination

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.209, Library of America

• We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.

  Aldo Leopold

  Mean, Eye, Hunting

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "Arizona and New Mexico: Thinking Like a Mountain", p. 130-132, 1949.

• We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

  Aldo Leopold

  Wild And Free, Cost, Faces

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Men, Land

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.145, Oxford University Press

• One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

  Aldo Leopold

  Rivers, Environmental, World

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.119, Oxford University Press

• The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right only when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community, and the community includes the soil, waters, fauna, and flora, as well as people.

  Aldo Leopold

  Integrity, Spring, Practice

• Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.

  Aldo Leopold

  Long, Mountain, Conservation

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.118, Oxford University Press

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

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Intelligent, Cogs

  Aldo Leopold (2012). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.21, Island Press

• Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Taken, Sunset

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

• The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any such thing as land, among whom education and culture have become almost synonymous with landlessness. This is the problem of conservation education.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, People, Culture

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.113, Oxford University Press

• What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land?

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Practice, Pieces

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.172, Univ of Wisconsin Press

• Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.

  Aldo Leopold

  Conservation, Interest, Public Interest

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.473, Library of America

• In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

  Aldo Leopold

  Rivers, Environmental, Easy

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.210, Oxford University Press, USA

• There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a sick landscape. We tilt windmills in behalf of conservation in convention halls and editorial offices, but on the back forty we disclaim even owning a lance.

  Aldo Leopold

  Pride, Animal, Land

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.158, Oxford University Press, USA

• Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic determinism is so habitual to Americans in discussing public questions that one must speak in the language of compound interest to get a hearing.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Rivers, Issues

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.315, Library of America

• All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.

  Aldo Leopold

  Self, Wilderness, Cherish

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.101, Oxford University Press, USA

• Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

  Aldo Leopold

  Art, Quality, Conservation

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.96, Oxford University Press, USA

• Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.

  Aldo Leopold

  New Relationship, Land, People

  Aldo Leopold (1940). “Wisconsin Wildlife Chronology”

• Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.

  Aldo Leopold

  Fire, Mind, Conservation

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.572, Library of America

• A land ethic...reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in
  turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land.
  Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal. Conservation is our effort
  to understand and preserve this capacity.

  Aldo Leopold

  Responsibility, Self, Land

• ...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.

  Aldo Leopold

  Moral, Evolution, Conservation

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.424, Library of America

• Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them

  Aldo Leopold

  Taken, Sunset, Wind

  Aldo Leopold (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.21, Oxford University Press

• Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

  Aldo Leopold

  Exercise, Skills, Negative

• I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the wilderness has been a good thing, its extermination would be a very bad one, and that the conservation of wilderness is the most urgent and difficult of all the tasks that confront us, because there are no economic laws to help and many to hinder its accomplishment.

  Aldo Leopold

  Law, Accomplishment, Tasks

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