A Sand County Almanac with Other Essays on Conservation from Round River

by Aldo Leopold

I had forgotten it would ever again be aught but morning on the Fork.

But all conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.

It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.

We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.

In wildness is the salvation of the world.

Perhaps this is the hidden meaning in the howl of the wolf, long known among mountains, but seldom perceived among men.

Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

weariness is unknown to the wild.

as well as self pity