Aldo Leopold Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, Men, Pioneers

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.135, Oxford University Press

• . . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters . . . glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, Rivers, Water

• In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too.

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, Real, Two

  Aldo Leopold (2012). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.115, Island Press

• In country, as in people, a plain exterior often conceals
  hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with.

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, People, Riches

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.30, Oxford University Press

• To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs.

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, Thinking, Needs

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

• Two things hold promise of improving those lights. One is to apply science to land-use. The other is to cultivate a love of country a little less spangled with stars, and a little more imbued with that respect for mother-earth - the lack of which is, to me, the outstanding attribute of the machine-age.

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, Mother, Stars

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.438, Library of America

• Wilderness is a continuous stretch of country preserved in its natural state, open to lawful hunting and fishing, big enough to absorb a two weeks' pack trip, and kept devoid of roads, artificial trails, cottages, or other works of man.

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, Men, Hunting

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.79, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, Jobs, Lovely

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.26, Oxford University Press, USA

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