Леопольд, Альдо цитаты

Альдо Леопольд — американский писатель, учёный, эколог, лесник и защитник окружающей среды. Наиболее известен как автор книги "A Sand County Almanac" , которая была продана в количестве более двух миллионов экземпляров. Профессор Университета Висконсина.

Оказал большое влияние на развитие современных представлений об экологической этике и движение за сохранение дикой природы. Считается одним из основателей науки о природопользовании.

Умер от сердечного приступа, участвуя в тушении лесного пожара на участке своего соседа по ферме. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. Январь 1887 – 21. Апрель 1948   •   Другие имена آلدو لئوپولد, ალდო ლეოპოლდი
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“We abuse land because we see 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 книга A Sand County Almanac

Источник: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, Foreword, p. viii.
Контексте: Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. 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. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the aesthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture.

“Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.”

Aldo Leopold книга A Sand County Almanac

"A Man's Leisure Time," 1920; Published in Round River, Luna B. Leopold (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 8.
1920s
Источник: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

“The elemental simplicities of wilderness travel were thrills not only because of their novelty, but because they represented complete freedom to make mistakes. … Perhaps every youth needs an occasional wilderness trip, in order to learn the meaning of this particular freedom.”

Aldo Leopold книга A Sand County Almanac

“Wisconsin: Flambeau”, p. 113.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Wisconsin: Marshland Elegy," "Wisconsin: The Sand Counties" "Wisconsin: On a Monument to the Pigeon," and "Wisconsin: Flambeau"

“To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.”

Aldo Leopold книга A Sand County Almanac

Источник: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Conservation Esthetic", p. 176.
Источник: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
Контексте: The trophy-recreationist has peculiarities that contribute in subtle ways to his own undoing. To enjoy he must possess, invade, appropriate. Hence the wilderness that he cannot personally see has no value to him. Hence the universal assumption that an unused hinterland is rendering no service to society. To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

“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 книга A Sand County Almanac

“Wisconsin: Marshland Elegy”, p. 101.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Wisconsin: Marshland Elegy," "Wisconsin: The Sand Counties" "Wisconsin: On a Monument to the Pigeon," and "Wisconsin: Flambeau"
Источник: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
Контексте: To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs. A roadless marsh is seemingly as worthless to the alphabetical conservationist as an undrained one was to the empire-builders. Solitude, the one natural resource still undowered of alphabets, is so far recognized as valuable only by ornithologists and cranes.
Thus always does history, whether of marsh or market place, end in paradox. The ultimate value in these marshes is wildness, and the crane is wildness incarnate. But 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.

“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.”

Aldo Leopold книга A Sand County Almanac

Источник: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "The Land Ethic", p. 224-225.
Источник: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
Контексте: Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and esthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. 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.

“The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.”

Aldo Leopold книга A Sand County Almanac

“November: Axe-in-Hand”, p. 71.
Источник: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "November: Axe-in-Hand," "November: A Mighty Fortress," and "December: Pines above the Snow"

“Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.”

Aldo Leopold книга A Sand County Almanac

Источник: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, Manitoba: Clandeboye, p. 168.
Источник: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

“It is fortunate, perhaps, that no matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all of the salient facts about any one of them.”

Aldo Leopold книга A Sand County Almanac

“April: Sky Dance”, p. 32-33.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "April: Come High Water," "April: Draba," "April: Bur Oak," & "April:Sky Dance"
Источник: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

“Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators… The land is one organism.”

"Conservation" (c. 1938); Published in Round River, Luna B. Leopold (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 145-146.
1930s
Контексте: Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. … Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.

“He 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, unknowingly. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.”

Aldo Leopold книга A Sand County Almanac

“April: Draba”, p. 26.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "April: Come High Water," "April: Draba," "April: Bur Oak," & "April:Sky Dance"

“What a dull world if we knew all about geese!”

Aldo Leopold книга A Sand County Almanac

“March: The Geese Return”, p. 20.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "January Thaw", "February: Good Oak" & "March: The Geese Return"

“Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.”

Aldo Leopold книга A Sand County Almanac

Источник: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Conservation Esthetic", p. 165.

“Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.”

Aldo Leopold книга A Sand County Almanac

Источник: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Wilderness", p. 188.

“It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.”

Aldo Leopold книга A Sand County Almanac

“Arizona and New Mexico: On Top”, p. 126.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Arizona and New Mexico: On Top," & "Arizona and New Mexico: Thinking Like a Mountain"

“There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.”

Aldo Leopold книга A Sand County Almanac

“February: Good Oak”, p. 6.
Источник: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "January Thaw", "February: Good Oak" & "March: The Geese Return"

“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.”

Aldo Leopold книга A Sand County Almanac

Источник: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, Foreword, p. vii (opening words).

“Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching — even when doing the wrong thing is legal.”

Presumably a paraphrase of "A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct" or of "Hunting for sport is an improvement ..." above.
Unlikely to be by Leopold, who knew that ethics involves not only doing the right thing, but also determining the right thing in the face of competing desirable criteria.
Misattributed

“Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.”

Aldo Leopold книга A Sand County Almanac

"The Ecological Conscience" [1947]; Published in The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold, Susan L. Flader and J. Baird Callicott (eds.) 1991, p. 346.
1940s
Источник: A Sand County Almanac
Контексте: The direction is clear, and the first step is to throw your weight around on matters of right and wrong in land-use. Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays. That philosophy is dead in human relations, and its funeral in land-relations is overdue.