Aldo Leopold Wilderness Quotations

Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us.

The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered place under everybody's nose

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 is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.

Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.

If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left worth fighting for.

The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.

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

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.