Aldo Leopold Quotes

"To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering."
-Aldo Leopold

"We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more 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 in Trying quotes.

"Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient."
-Aldo Leopold

"Mark this well, the laws of economics are the last thing the roads booster is thinking about."
-Aldo Leopold in Economics quotes.

"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

"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land."
-Aldo Leopold

"One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring."
-Aldo Leopold

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