Aldo Leopold Quotes About Study

Quotes about: Study

• No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Drama, Littles

  Aldo Leopold (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.64, Oxford University Press

• 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

• Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Doctors, People

  Aldo Leopold (2012). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.197, Island Press

• Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Unexpected, Study

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.172, Oxford University Press

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