Aldo Leopold Quotes about Hunting

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There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

Aldo Leopold

Hunting, Hunting And Fishing, Wild Things

Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.

Aldo Leopold

Mean, Eye, Hunting

"A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "Arizona and New Mexico: Thinking Like a Mountain", p. 130-132, 1949.

How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!

Aldo Leopold

Hunting, Wind, Fishing

Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.39, Oxford University Press, USA

There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.

Aldo Leopold

Exercise, Hunting, Sportsmanship

Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.178, Oxford University Press, USA

Wilderness is a continuous stretch of country preserved in its natural state, open to lawful hunting and fishing, big enough to absorb a two weeks' pack trip, and kept devoid of roads, artificial trails, cottages, or other works of man.

Aldo Leopold

Country, Men, Hunting

Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.79, Univ of Wisconsin Press