Robert Reich Quotes


I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness. Aldo Leopold Environment 129
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant What good is it Aldo Leopold Ignorance 117
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. Aldo Leopold Environmental 111
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring. Aldo Leopold Seasons 96
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. Aldo Leopold Nature 86
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive. Aldo Leopold Absolute 61
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. Aldo Leopold Love 49
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. Aldo Leopold Beauty 47
Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers. Aldo Leopold Education 44
The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land. Aldo Leopold Conservation 43
No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them. Aldo Leopold Environment 43
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins as in art with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language. Aldo Leopold Language 43
We shall never achieve harmony with the land anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve but to strive. Aldo Leopold Science 35
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste to others the most valuable part. Aldo Leopold Nature 34
Tell me of what plantbirthday a man takes notice and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation his hobbies his hay fever and the general level of his ecological education. Aldo Leopold Ecology 32
There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery and the other that heat comes from the furnace. Aldo Leopold Nature 29
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Aldo Leopold Environment 27
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. Aldo Leopold Environmental 24

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