Aldo Leopold Mind Quotations

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind.

Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.

Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.

When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.