Quotes by Nature For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television. Aldo Leopold nature important opportunity It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature. Aldo Leopold nature common people 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 littles drama I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness. Aldo Leopold wilderness environmental nature 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 garden nature tree 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 heart spring The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts Aldo Leopold nature funny science Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm. Aldo Leopold lasts nature land High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its nearness ... A new day has begun on the crane marsh. A sense of time lies thick and heavy on such a place ... Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language. Aldo Leopold nature beautiful art There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and mower out of these idle spots, and the full native flora, plus dozens of interesting stowaways from foreign parts, could be part of the normal environment of every citizen. Aldo Leopold nature long interesting Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested. Aldo Leopold fuel failing nature If in a city we had six vacant lots available to the youngsters of a certain neighborhood for playing ball, it might be "development" to build houses on the first, and the second, and the third, and the fourth, and even the fifth, but when we build houses on the last one, we forget what houses are for. Aldo Leopold nature cities house We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. Aldo Leopold community-living respect nature To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering. Aldo Leopold cogs intelligent nature Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. Aldous Huxley nature life death My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. Aldous Huxley climbing nature father Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant. Aldous Huxley garden nature men The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes. Aldous Huxley flavor nature may Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it. Aldous Huxley nature class country Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital. Aldous Huxley prosperity environment nature «1234567891011»