Aldo Leopold Wilderness Quotes

#1. Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Charles Churchill

#2. All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.

Aldo Leopold

#3. Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us.

Aldo Leopold

#4. The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered place under everybody's nose

Aldo Leopold

#5. Ask Jesus to make you a saint. After all, only He can do that. Go to confession regularly and to Communion as often as you can

Dominic Savio

#6. 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.

Aldo Leopold

#7. Paper isn't important. It's the words on them that are important.

Margaret Atwood

#8. Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.

Aldo Leopold

#9. 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

#10. I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

Aldo Leopold

#11. After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.

John James Audubon

#12. Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.

Aldo Leopold

#13. Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism.

Aldo Leopold

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

Aldo Leopold

#15. It's always fallen to women to forge the peace between all these hot-blooded men, always ready to go to war at the slightest provocation....Why do men behave the way they do, warring?"
"What do you think?" he asked.
"Maybe because they've got no sense of grief?

Nuruddin Farah

#16. A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.

Charles Dickens

#17. 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.

Aldo Leopold

#18. To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

Aldo Leopold

#19. If we lose our wilderness , we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United States is of no consequence to me.

Aldo Leopold

#20. I listen
as I eat the street for supper,
listen to the pain songs
of Mexico.
Flashes of returning
come with the birds.

Joseph Ceravolo

#21. And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadn't taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time.

David Blunkett

#22. Church on time, makes me party.

David Bowie

#23. Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

Aldo Leopold

#24. Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow ... creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.

Aldo Leopold

#25. I try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something that someone says about me, and it's so slanderous and moralistic and it has nothing to do with my music.

Madonna Ciccone

#26. Is it possible to preserve the element of Unknown Places in our national life? Is it practicable to do so, without undue loss in economic values? I say 'yes' to both questions. But we must act vigorously and quickly, before the remaining bits of wilderness have disappeared.

Aldo Leopold

#27. Art is the child of imagination and gives life.

Mirka Mora

#28. The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.

Aldo Leopold