Quotes by 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.”

“Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.”

“Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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