Quotes by Aldo Leopold

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

"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left."

"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land."

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

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

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

"We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive."

"Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher “standard of living” is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television."

"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."

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