“ The boundary between tame and wild exists only in the imperfections of the human mind. Aldo Leopold
“ That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics. Aldo Leopold
“ One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence of the other. The one studies the human community, almost as if it were a separa… Aldo Leopold
“ 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
“ Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to perserve the integrity, stability, and beauty… Aldo Leopold
“ 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
“ Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. Aldo Leopold
“ 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
“ The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it? Aldo Leopold
“ Do not let anyone tell you that these people made work of play. They simply realized that the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown. Aldo Leopold
“ 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
“ Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he… Aldo Leopold
“ 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
“ One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Aldo Leopold
“ 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. Aldo Leopold
“ The three species of pine native to Wisconsin (white, red and jack) differ radically in their opinions about marriageable age. The precocious jackpine sometimes bloom and bears cones a year or two aft… Aldo Leopold
“ Above all we should, in the century since Darwin, have come to know that man, while now captain of the adventuring ship, is hardly the sole object of its quest, and that his prior assumptions to this… Aldo Leopold
“ 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 pract… Aldo Leopold
