Aldo Leopold's Quotes

We 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.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

In antihistory, time is an illusion.

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth.

I really love to resurrect pieces from my past collections and wear them to fashion week parties.

I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.

It's just fun to be in Paris.

The Thirties are a great mix of everyday glamour and something a bit more practical.

I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.