Aldo Leopold Quotes About Creation

Quotes about: Creation

• Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.

  Aldo Leopold

  Tree, Example, Needs

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.143, Oxford University Press

• Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Garden, Tree

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There".

• Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.

  Aldo Leopold

  Impossible, Wilderness, Creation

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.234, Library of America

• One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence of the other. The one studies the human community, almost as if it were a separate entity, and calls its findings sociology, economics and history. The other studies the plant and animal community and comfortably relegates the hodge-podge of politics to the liberal arts. The inevitable fusion of these two lines of thought will, perhaps, constitute the outstanding advance of this century.

  Aldo Leopold

  Art, Animal, Two

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.502, Library of America

• Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow. Invasions can be arrested or modified in a manner to keep an area usable either for recreation, science or for wildlife, but the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible. It follows, then, that any wilderness program is a rearguard action, through which retreats are reduced to a minimum.

  Aldo Leopold

  Invasion, Retreat, Wildlife

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.175, Oxford University Press

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