Aldo LeopoldThinkers

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

The Farmer is one secure from the spiritual danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery and that heat comes from the furnace.

June is a month in which 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.

Land is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals.

Land is abused 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.

Standard of living is, after a certain point, bought at the cost of things natural, wild, and free.

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