Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.
Aldo LeopoldThat 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 LeopoldTags: philosopher writer conservationist
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
Aldo LeopoldWe 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. ~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
Aldo LeopoldHe who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.
Aldo LeopoldBut wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy. . . . Nothing could be more salutary at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings.
Aldo LeopoldEthical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.
Aldo LeopoldA thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, the stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
Aldo LeopoldOnly the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.
Aldo LeopoldTo those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—a very successful method of passing trouble from one place to the next. It solves nothing in any collective sense.
Aldo LeopoldTags: landscape rivers engineering
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