Aldo Leopold Quotes About Spring

Quotes about: Spring

• 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

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

  Aldo Leopold

  Summer, Spring, Doe

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.18, Oxford University Press, USA

• In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

  Aldo Leopold

  Anniversary, Nature, Spring

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.82, Oxford University Press

• He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

  Aldo Leopold

  Spring, Eye, Despair

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.56, Oxford University Press

• Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which deprived us of [Passenger] pigeons. Perhaps we now grieve because we are not sure, in our hearts, that we have gained by the exchange. The gadgets of industry bring us more comforts than the pigeons did, but do they add as much to the glory of the spring?

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Spring, Heart

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "Wisconsin: On a Monument to the Pigeon", p. 109, 1949.

• He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

  Aldo Leopold

  Spring, Knees, Mud

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.56, Oxford University Press

• There are degrees and kinds of solitude. I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.

  Aldo Leopold

  Spring, Solitude, Degrees

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "April: Come High Water", p. 25, 1949.

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