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1887–1948 United States
Aldo Leopold (January 11, 1887 – April 21, 1948) was a United States wildlife biologist and conservationist. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1949), which has sold more than two million copies.
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.
Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.
Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.
Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.
The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.
There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring.
Land-use ethics are still governed wholly by economic self-interest, just as social ethics were a century ago.
No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.
Six days shalt thou paddle and pack, but on the seventh thou shall wash thy socks.
Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild.
Whoever invented the word ‘grace’ must have seen the wing-folding of the plover.
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