I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.
Aldo LeopoldAgricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.
Aldo LeopoldKeeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.
Aldo LeopoldI am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the wilderness has been a good thing, its extermination would be a very bad one, and that the conservation of wilderness is the most urgent and difficult of all the tasks that confront us, because there are no economic laws to help and many to hinder its accomplishment.
Aldo Leopold