Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?
Aldo LeopoldThere are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of the great orchestra. These men are called professors. Each selects one instrument and spends his life taking it apart and describing its strings and sounding boards. This process of dismemberment is called research. The place for dismemberment is called a university.
Aldo LeopoldWilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very diverse. The differences in the product are known as cultures. The rich diversity of the worlds cultures reflects a corresponding diversity. In the wilds that gave them birth.
Aldo LeopoldTo those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrantsโa very successful method of passing trouble from one place to the next. It solves nothing in any collective sense.
Aldo Leopold