Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for …

- Aldo Leopold

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

- Aldo Leopold

This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all. On a still night, when the camp…

- Aldo Leopold

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them

- Aldo Leopold

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

- Aldo Leopold

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.

- Aldo Leopold

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.

- Aldo Leopold

In wildness is the salvation of the world.

- Aldo Leopold

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

- Aldo Leopold