Home / Quotes / Quote by Aldo Leopold

Quote by Aldo Leopold

“I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.”

Quote by Aldo Leopold

Author

Aldo Leopold was an American author, philosopher, conservationist, and environmentalist. He is best known for his book 'A Sand County Almanac', which is considered a foundational text in environmental ethics and wildlife management. Leopold was born on January 11, 1887, and passed away on April 21, 1948. more

You May Also Like

“There is an expression-walking with beauty. And I believe that this endless search for beauty in surroundings, in people and one's personal life, is the headstone of travel.”

People Believe Life Is I Believe Expression Walking Endless Personal Life Surroundings Headstone

Author:Juliette de Bairacli Levy

“Travel light, Arrive quickly.”

Light Travel Light

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.... Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and follow this way or that as the freak takes you.... There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning.”

Way Should Able Voice Silence Morning Gone Goes On Walking Essence Enjoyed Freak Jars Elbows

Book:Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

“I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism . . . The only way to react is to get up in the morning and start the day by saying four or five vastly politically incorrect things before breakfast!”

Way Believe Form Political I Believe Morning Five Four Get Up Breakfast Fascism Political Correctness Correctness Start The Day

Author:P. D. James

“There is an important erotic element in A Thousand and One Nights, which is one of the keys to understanding the Orient.”

Important Night Understanding Keys Thousand Elements Erotic One Night

Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun

“English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.”

Feels Language Natural Plastic Flexibility Expressive

Author:Ha Jin

“I had three choices: to conform to my own beliefs, which meant death; complete silence, which meant another kind of death; to pay a tribute, a bribe. I chose the third solution by writing The Long Winter.”

Writing Kind Long Choices Three Belief My Own Pay Silence Solutions Thirds Winter Conform Tribute Bribe

Author:Ismail Kadaré

“People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and I'll never see it again.”

People Art Ideas Middle Internet Sat Works Of Art Great Work Hometown

Author:Mary Karr

“Humor needs to come in under cover of darkness, in disguise, and surprise people.”

People Needs Darkness Surprise Disguise

Author:Garrison Keillor

“You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you're saying and how to say it and move forward into the unknown.”

Moving Imagination Beats Moving Forward

Author:William Kennedy