Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. Aldo Leopold More Quotes by Aldo Leopold More Quotes From Aldo Leopold No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions. Aldo Leopold loyalty important intellectual 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 degrees solitude spring An oak is no respecter of persons. Aldo Leopold oaks persons The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts Aldo Leopold nature funny science Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt. Aldo Leopold doubt mind The modern dogma is comfort at any cost. Aldo Leopold cost comfort life Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers. Aldo Leopold trading awareness process Two things hold promise of improving those lights. One is to apply science to land-use. The other is to cultivate a love of country a little less spangled with stars, and a little more imbued with that respect for mother-earth - the lack of which is, to me, the outstanding attribute of the machine-age. Aldo Leopold stars mother country Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution. Aldo Leopold skills exercise negative Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession. Aldo Leopold wildlife profession administration Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think. Aldo Leopold scream eagles thinking There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of the great orchestra. These men are called professors. Each selects one instrument and spends his life taking it apart and describing its strings and sounding boards. This process of dismemberment is called research. The place for dismemberment is called a university. Aldo Leopold boards animal men We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses Aldo Leopold stolen noses art We realize the indivisibility of the earth - its soil, mountains, rivers, forests, climate, plants, and animals - and respect it collectively not only as a useful servant but as a living being, vastly less alive than ourselves in degree, but vastly greater than ourselves in time and space - a being that was old when the morning stars sang together, and when the last of us has been gathered unto his fathers, will still be young. Aldo Leopold stars morning father All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. Aldo Leopold team land men Hydrologists have demonstrated that the meanderings of a creek are a necessary part of the hydrologic functioning. The flood plain belongs to the river. The ecologist sees clearly that for similar reasons we can get along with less channel improvement on Round River. Aldo Leopold environmental rivers water It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it Aldo Leopold lilies wilderness golden Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow. Aldo Leopold wilderness resources grows I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing. Aldo Leopold serious-things self adventure Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky. Aldo Leopold solidarity navy sky
