Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.


"Wherefore Wildlife Ecology?" [1947]; 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. 337.

Aldo Leopold Quotes

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.