The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.
Aldo LeopoldI have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written'… It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.
Aldo LeopoldThe road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding of either land or economic land use.
Aldo LeopoldLand is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
Aldo LeopoldThis whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one can cast his eye upon the hills and see hard-boiled farmers who have spent their lives destroying land now carrying water by hand to their new plantations
Aldo Leopold