Top 100 Aldo Quotes
#1. 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. ~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold
#3. I chuckled like Aldo Ray. If I had to endure his l'homme du monde act, he had to suffer my jaded alcoholic private eye.
James Crumley
#4. The Mexican gray wolves are actually responsible for the spark of legendary environmentalists Aldo Leopold and Ernest Seton. In both cases, the men found their lives and souls forever changed after they killed Mexican gray wolves.
Joy Covey
#5. The only reason I lost to Aldo Montoya was the intoxicating fumes there were coming off his body from being around Jake Roberts.
Jerry Lawler
#6. Aldo said he was bored to tearsies by my grandmother's diminutives.
Renata Adler
#7. Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.
Aldo Leopold
#8. I don't believe in miracles, only unexplained facts.
Morris L. West
#9. It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.
Aldo Leopold
#10. How would you like to have a thousand brilliantly colored cliff swallows keeping house in the eaves of your barn, and gobbling up insects over your farm at the rate of 100,000 per day? There are many Wisconsin farmsteads where such a swallow-show is a distinct possibility.
Aldo Leopold
#11. No one would rather hunt woodcock in October than I, but since learning of the sky dance I find myself calling one or two birds enough. I must be sure that, come April, there be no dearth of dancers in the sunset sky.
Aldo Leopold
#12. I don't care if people boo me or talk trash to me. I can't understand what they're saying anyways.
Jose Aldo
#13. Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.
Aldo Leopold
#14. Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild.
Aldo Leopold
#15. That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our
best.
Aldo Leopold
#16. We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
Aldo Leopold
#17. The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind.
Aldo Leopold
#18. I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.
Aldo Leopold
#19. The only true development in American recreational resources is the development of the perceptive faculty in Americans. All of the other acts we grace by that name are, at best, attempts to retard or mask the process of dilution.
Aldo Leopold
#20. The drama of the sky dance is enacted nightly on hundreds of farms, the owners of which sigh for entertainment, but harbor the illusion that it is to be sought in theaters. They live on the land, but not by the land.
Aldo Leopold
#21. There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than
one rooted in pavements.
Aldo Leopold
#22. Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands.
Aldo Leopold
#23. Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.
Aldo Leopold
#24. Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky.
Aldo Leopold
#25. Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.
Aldo Leopold
#26. I am convinced that most Americans of the new generation have no idea what a decent forest looks like. The only way to tell them is to show them.
Aldo Leopold
#27. The most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.
Aldo Leopold
#28. I love all trees, but I am in love with pines.
Aldo Leopold
#29. Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.
Aldo Leopold
#30. 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
#31. Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.
Aldo Leopold
#32. One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.
Aldo Rossi
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.
Aldo Leopold
#36. The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the June woods is in itself proof that dead trees are transmuted into living animals, and vice versa.
Aldo Leopold
#37. 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
#38. Train hard and try new things; everything you do outside of the cage counts as experience inside the cage.
Jose Aldo
#39. To any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.
Aldo Leopold
#40. I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written' ... It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.
Aldo Leopold
#41. For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.
Aldo Leopold
#42. A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct
Aldo Leopold
#43. Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
Aldo Leopold
#44. Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.
Aldo Leopold
#45. What the youth needs to be told is that a ship is a-building in his own mental dry dock, a ship with freedom of the seas.
Aldo Leopold
#46. What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.
Aldo Rossi
#47. Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.
Aldo Leopold
#48. The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.
Aldo Leopold
#49. A land ethic, then, reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land. Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal. Conservation is our effort to understand and preserve this capacity.
Aldo Leopold
#50. No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.
Aldo Leopold
#51. We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.
Aldo Leopold
#52. Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth?
Aldo Leopold
#53. Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.
Aldo Leopold
#54. At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.
Aldo Leopold
#55. When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.
Aldo Leopold
#56. One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city
Aldo Rossi
#57. The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.
Aldo Leopold
#58. The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
Aldo Leopold
#59. Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry.
Aldo Leopold
#60. If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not ...
Aldo Leopold
#61. The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any such thing as land, among whom education and culture have become almost synonymous with landlessness. This is the problem of conservation education.
Aldo Leopold
#62. All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.
Aldo Leopold
#63. 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
#64. There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.
Aldo Leopold
#65. To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.
Aldo Leopold
#66. Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.
Aldo Leopold
#67. The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.
Aldo Leopold
#68. O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me
Aldo Leopold
#69. Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.
Aldo Leopold
#70. 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
#71. There are some of us who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese or wild flowers is a right as inalienable as free speech.
Aldo Leopold
#72. Perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters ... glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.
Aldo Leopold
#73. There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.
Aldo Leopold
#74. There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a sick landscape. We tilt windmills in behalf of conservation in convention halls and editorial offices, but on the back forty we disclaim even owning a lance.
Aldo Leopold
#75. The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.
Aldo Leopold
#76. Elegance is like manners. You can't be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it's another matter.
Aldo Gucci
#77. The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on ... A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind.
Aldo Leopold
#78. 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
#79. Keep training harder and always challenge yourself.
Jose Aldo
#80. What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?
Aldo Leopold
#81. It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a high regard for its value. By value, I of course mean something far broader than mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense.
Aldo Leopold
#82. I forgive everyone. There's no reason to hold anything against someone. Revenge is over with.
Jose Aldo
#83. The mouse is a sober citizen who knows that the grass grows in order that mice may store it as underground haystacks, and that snow falls in order that mice may build subways from stack to stack ...
Aldo Leopold
#84. Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
Aldo Leopold
#85. To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul - hope you like what you see.
Aldo Leopold
#86. My next fight is always the most important fight, so regardless if I'm fighting for the title or not, I always have to go in there and give everything that I've got.
Jose Aldo
#87. Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.
Aldo Leopold
#89. I shall now confess to you that none of those three trout had to be beheaded, or folded double, to fit their casket. What was big was not the trout, but the chance. What was full was not my creel, but my memory.
Aldo Leopold
#90. Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. 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.
Aldo Leopold
#91. The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not.
Aldo Leopold
#92. Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.
Aldo Leopold
#93. Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.
Aldo Leopold
#94. In wildness is the salvation of the world,
Aldo Leopold
#95. Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.
Aldo Leopold
#96. The practices we now call conservation are, to a large extent, local alleviations of biotic pain. They are necessary, but they must not be confused with cures. The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born.
Aldo Leopold
#97. He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.
Aldo Leopold
#98. Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.
Aldo Leopold
#99. Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels.
Aldo Leopold
#100. In country, as in people, a plain exterior often conceals
hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with.
Aldo Leopold
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