Aldo Leopold Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• 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

• Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself, but not the capacity to live in high density without befouling and denuding his environment, nor a conviction that such capacity, rather than such density, is the true test of whether he is civilized.

  Aldo Leopold

  Science, Average, Civilization

  Aldo Leopold (1937). “Game Management 118”

• 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

• The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not.

  Aldo Leopold

  Law, Progress, Opponents

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

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