Aldo Leopold Quotes about Wilderness

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

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

Aldo Leopold

Nature, Environmental, Wilderness

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.

Aldo Leopold

Self, Wilderness, Cherish

Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.101, Oxford University Press, USA

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

Aldo Leopold

Fighting, Wilderness, Left

Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.

Aldo Leopold

America, Stuff, Wilderness

Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.137, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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.

Aldo Leopold

Character, Yield, Wilderness

Aldo Leopold, David Earl Brown, Neil B. Carmony (1995). “Aldo Leopold's Southwest”, p.161, UNM Press

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.

Aldo Leopold

Wilderness, Resources, Grows

Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.199, Oxford University Press, USA

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

Aldo Leopold

Maps, Wilderness, Blank

Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.135, Oxford University Press

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

Aldo Leopold

Impossible, Wilderness, Creation

Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.234, Library of America

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

Aldo Leopold

Lying, Wilderness, Values

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

Aldo Leopold

Lilies, Golden, Wilderness

Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.141, Oxford University Press, USA

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

Aldo Leopold

Noses, Wilderness, Stealing

Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.57, Oxford University Press