297 Quotes by Aldo Leopold

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

Wilderness is a continuous stretch of country preserved in its natural state, open to lawful hunting and fishing, big enough to absorb a two weeks' pack trip, and kept devoid of roads, artificial trails, cottages, or other works of man.

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to turn up each day before breakfast. Like the river, we were free to wander.

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.