Aldo Leopold

"Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land."

"It is on some, but not all, of these misty autumn day-breaks that one may hear the chorus of the quail. The silence is suddenly broken by a dozen contralto voices, no longer able to restrain their pra…"

"In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too."

"A profession is a body of men who voluntarily measure their work by a higher standard than their clients demand. To be professionally acceptable, a policy must be sound as well as salable. Wildlife ad…"

"Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you."

"All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values."

"We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses."

"It can be stated as a sober fact that the iron-heel attitude has already reduced by half the ability of Wisconsin to support a cooperative community of men, animals, and plants during the next century…"