A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Quote by Aldo Leopold

Topics: Aldo Leopold Quotes

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose...

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose...

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of...

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of...

In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single...

In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single...

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as...

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as...

The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to...

The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to...

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single...

In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single...

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice...

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice...

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we...

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we...

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and...

All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and...

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice...

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice...

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single...

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single...

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk...

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk...

Mark this well, the laws of economics are the last thing the roads booster is...

Mark this well, the laws of economics are the last thing the roads booster is...

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand...

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand...

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of...

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of...

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first...

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first...

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of...

Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of...