Aldo Leopold Quote

We realize the indivisibility of the earth-its soil, mountains, rivers, forests, climate, plants, and animals-and respect it collectively not only as a useful servant but as a living being, vastly greater than ourselves in time and space-a being that was old when the morning stars sang together, and when the last of us has been gathered unto his fathers, will still be young.

The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold (ed. Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1992) - ISBN: 9780299127633