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Aldo Leopold

b: Burlington, Iowa, USA, Jan 11, 1887

d: Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA, Apr 21, 1948

Aldo Leopold was an American ecologist, forester, and environmentalist. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1949), which has sold over two million copies. Influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement for wilderness conservation, his ethics of nature and wildlife preservation had a profound impact on the environmental movement, with his biocentric or holistic ethics regarding land. He emphasized biodiversity and ecology and was a founder of the science of wildlife management.

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Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and esthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

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

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me.

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

The first requisite of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces.

The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the 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.