Aldo Leopold Quotations | Page 3

There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.

We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.

Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of the land.

At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.

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

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

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