Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. Aldo Leopold More Quotes by Aldo Leopold More Quotes From Aldo Leopold To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs. Aldo Leopold country needs thinking Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear. Aldo Leopold conservation fire mind In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too. Aldo Leopold real two country Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing. Aldo Leopold expression self art The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land Aldo Leopold vigor land art O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me Aldo Leopold sides war enemy The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations Aldo Leopold economic privilege land In wildness is the salvation of the world. Aldo Leopold wildness salvation world My dog does not care where heat comes from, but he cares that it comes, and soon. Indeed he considers my ability to make it come as something magical, for when I rise in the coal black pre-dawn and kneel by the hearth to make a fire, he pushes himself blandly between me and the kindling splits I have laid in the ashes, and I must touch a match to them by poking it between his legs. Such faith , I suppose, is the kind that moves mountains. Aldo Leopold dog heart moving Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind. Aldo Leopold lovely jobs country No one would rather hunt woodcock in October than I, but since learning of the sky dance I find myself calling one or two birds enough. I must be sure that, come April, there be no dearth of dancers in the sunset sky. Aldo Leopold sunset sky two He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance. Aldo Leopold mud knees spring Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays. Aldo Leopold yield doe pay Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them Aldo Leopold sunset taken wind 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 Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic determinism is so habitual to Americans in discussing public questions that one must speak in the language of compound interest to get a hearing. Aldo Leopold issues land rivers A land ethic...reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in Aldo Leopold land responsibility self The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. Aldo Leopold radio land discovery There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a sick landscape. We tilt windmills in behalf of conservation in convention halls and editorial offices, but on the back forty we disclaim even owning a lance. Aldo Leopold land pride animal This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one can cast his eye upon the hills and see hard-boiled farmers who have spent their lives destroying land now carrying water by hand to their new plantations Aldo Leopold pain disappointment mistake
