“We grieve only for what we know” — Aldo Leopold Quote

“We grieve only for what we know”

“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.”

“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.”

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

“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.”

“Art is something we create; science is something we discover”

“The astonishing fact is that similar mathematics applies so well to planets and to clocks. It needn’t have been this way. We didn’t impose it on the Universe. That’s the way the Universe is. If this is reductionism, so be it.”

“Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.”

“AM will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet … AM has won, simply … he has taken his revenge … I have no mouth. And I must scream.”

“The purpose is you.”

“I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend”