Land Conservation Quotes - Page 2

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

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Travel, Imagination

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.209, Library of America

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• A land ethic...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

  Responsibility, Self, Land

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• Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.

  Aldo Leopold

  Self, Land, Renewal

  Aldo Leopold, David Earl Brown, Neil B. Carmony (1995). “Aldo Leopold's Southwest”, p.137, UNM Press

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

  Aldo Leopold

  Land Use, Term, Wells

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold, p. 224-225, 1949.

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

  Aldo Leopold

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hands

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.556, Library of America

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• We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

  Aldo Leopold

  Wild And Free, Cost, Faces

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, Men, Pioneers

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.135, Oxford University Press

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

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Intelligent, Cogs

  Aldo Leopold (2012). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.21, Island Press

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• What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land?

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Practice, Pieces

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.172, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Cogs, Tinkering

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.108, Oxford University Press

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• You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Land, Environmental

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “The Essential Writings of Rousseau”, p.50, Modern Library

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• One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.

  Aldo Leopold

  Believe, Doctors, Land

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.165, Oxford University Press

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