“Above all we should, in the century since Darwin, have come to know that man, while now captain of the adventuring ship, is hardly the sole object of its quest, and that his prior assumptions to this effect arose from the simple necessity of whistling in the dark.”
“Above all we should, in the century since Darwin, have come to know that man, while now captain of the adventuring ship, is hardly the sole object of its quest, and that his prior assumptions to this effect arose from the simple necessity of whistling in the dark.”
Aldo Leopold
“We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.”
Aldo Leopold, Round River: From the Journals of Aldo Leopold“The three species of pine native to Wisconsin (white, red and jack) differ radically in their opinions about marriageable age. The precocious jackpine sometimes bloom and bears cones a year or two after leaving the nursery, and a few of my 13-year-old jacks already boast of grandchildren. My 13-year-old reds first bloomed this year, but my whites have not yet bloomed; they adhere closely to the Anglo-Saxon doctrine of free, white, and twenty-one.”
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac And Sketches Here And There“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There“I am convinced that most Americans of the new generation have no idea what a decent forest looks like. The only way to tell them is to show them.”
Aldo Leopold, The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold“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“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“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“Do not let anyone tell you that these people made work of play. They simply realized that the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.”
Aldo Leopold“Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to perserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
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