Aldo Leopold Conservation Quotations

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.

Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .

Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.

...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.

Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.