Aldo Leopold Quotes

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.