297 Quotes by Aldo Leopold

Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.

Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.

Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing.

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct

For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet sufficiently enlightened to realize that we must now challenge that dogma, or do without our wilderness? Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?

In country, as in people, a plain exterior often conceals hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with.

Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands.

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.