Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
Aldo LeopoldOn motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.
Aldo LeopoldIndividual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.
Aldo LeopoldWe can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.
Aldo Leopold