Aldo Leopold
(1887-1948)

American Ecologist, Forester
"Father of Wildlife Management"

birthdate: January 11
birthplace:
Burlington, Iowa

QUOTES

"Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm."

"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and 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."

"Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech."

"All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. . . . The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land."

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.

 

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