Aldo Leopold

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

— Aldo Leopold

#each #economically #ethically #examine #expedient

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#nature #nature

Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#education

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators... The land is one organism. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#nature #predators #love

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

#travel #wilderness #nature

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

— Aldo Leopold

#every #first #intelligent #keep #precaution

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

— Aldo Leopold

#country #development #human #human mind #into

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

#education #feathers #goose #his #lesser

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

#anniversaries #buds #burst #day #dozen

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

— Aldo Leopold

#cannot #cherish #chop #friend #hand