"The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?"

--

Source : Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.557, Library of America

Aldo Leopold

#Nature Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Animal Quotes

“Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.”
“Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.”
“We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesen't remind us what we did badly, it reminds us what we know we could do better.”
“A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.”
“It is wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his”
“Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars and smoking cigarettes and walking down city streets in flesh colored stockings.”
“Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's calming benefits.”

Source : Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.177, Rowman & Littlefield
“With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process. A photograph does the opposite: It takes the world, and puts an order on it, simplifies it.”

Source : "On The Nature of Photographs February 20th, 2015". Interview with Luc Sante, aperture.org. February 20, 2015.

You may also like:

Edward Abbey
Author
Garrett Hardin
Ecologist
Gaylord Nelson
Former United States Senator
Gifford Pinchot
Former Governor of Pennsylvania
Henry David Thoreau
Author
John Muir
Author
Luna Leopold
Rachel Carson
Marine biologist
Wendell Berry
Novelist