Game Management Quotes

“The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy – it is already too late for that – but in creating a better understanding of the extent of that influence and a new ethic for its governance.”
― Aldo Leopold, Game Management

“A pair of wood thrushes is more valuable to a village than a Saturday evening band concert, and costs less.”
― Aldo Leopold, Game Management

“In short, twenty centuries of "progress" have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself, but not the capacity to live in high density without befouling and denuding his environment, nor a conviction that such capacity, rather than such density, is the true test of whether he is civilized.”
― Aldo Leopold, Game Management