A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Ecology and Conservation Quotes

“Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. … 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.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Ecology and Conservation

“We grieve because no living man will see again the onrushing phalanx of victorious birds, sweeping a path for spring across the March skies, chasing the defeated winter from all the woods and prairies of Wisconsin.

Men still live who, in their youth, remember pigeons. Trees still live who, in their youth, were shaken by a living wind. But a decade hence only the oldest oaks will remember, and at long last only the hills will know.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Ecology and Conservation

“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Ecology and Conservation