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

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

Aldo Leopold
Conservation, Interest, Public Interest
Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.473, Library of America

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

Aldo Leopold
Long, Mountain, Conservation
Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.118, Oxford University Press

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

Aldo Leopold
Art, Quality, Conservation
Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.96, Oxford University Press, USA

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

Aldo Leopold
Government, Virtue, Conservation
Curt Meine, Aldo Leopold (1983). “Building "The Land Ethic": a history of Aldo Leopold's most important essay”

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

Aldo Leopold
Moral, Evolution, Conservation
Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.424, Library of America

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

Aldo Leopold
Fire, Mind, Conservation
Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.572, Library of America

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