Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.


"The Conservation Ethic" [1933]; 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. 191.


Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory...

Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory...

Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory...

Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory...