Aldo Leopold
"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect"
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"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect"
"نُسيءُ للأرض لأننا نراها مجرد سلعةٍ نمتلكها. أما حين نرى الأرض مجتمعًا ننتمي إليه، فقد نبدأ في التعامل معها بمحبةٍ واحترام."
Aldo Leopold
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"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."
"إن أمل المستقبل لا يرتكز على كبح جماح نفوذ الإنسان – فقد فات أوان ذلك بالفعل – بل في بناء وعي أعمق بحجم هذا النفوذ، وإرساء ميثاق أخلاقي جديد لإدارته."
Aldo Leopold
Game Management
"We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve but to strive."
"لن نبلغ الانسجام التام مع الأرض، تماماً كما لن نبلغ العدل المطلق أو الحرية الكاملة للبشر. ففي هذه التطلعات السامية، ليس المهم هو البلوغ، بل السعي."
Aldo Leopold
Round River: From the Journals of Aldo Leopold
"Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?"
"إن الإنسان يقتل دائمًا ما يحب، وهكذا نحن الرواد قد قتلنا بريتنا. يقول البعض إنه كان علينا فعل ذلك. فليكن ما يكون، أنا سعيد أنني لن أكون شابًا أبدًا بلا أرض برية أعيش فيها شبابي. فما نفع أربعين حرية بلا بقعة بيضاء على الخريطة؟"
Aldo Leopold
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language."
"إن قدرتنا على استشعار قيمة الطبيعة تبدأ، كما"
Aldo Leopold
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part."
"لمن خلا خيالهم، البقعة البيضاء على الخريطة قفرٌ لا طائل منه؛ ولآخرين، هي أثمن الأجزاء."
Aldo Leopold
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace."
"هناك خطران روحيان يحدقان بمن لا يملك مزرعة. أحدهما وهم أن الفطور يأتي من المتجر، والآخر أن الدفء ينبع من الفرن."
Aldo Leopold
A Sand County Almanac
"I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness."
"أحمد الله أني لن أكون شابًا في مستقبلٍ خالٍ من البرية."
Aldo Leopold
"The practices we now call conservation are, to a large extent, local alleviations of biotic pain. They are necessary, but they must not be confused with cures. The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born."
"إن ما نطلق عليه اليوم "صون الطبيعة" ليس في جوهره إلا تسكينات موضعية لوجع الحياة. هي ضرورية لا غنى عنها، بيد أنها لا ينبغي أن تختلط علينا بالشفاء التام. ففن طبابة الأرض يُمارس اليوم بهمّة، لكن علم عافية الأرض لم ير النور بعد."
Aldo Leopold
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left."
"الانسجام مع الأرض كالتناغم مع صديق؛ لا يمكنك أن تعتز بيمينه وتقطع يساره."
Aldo Leopold
"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land."
"الحفاظ هو حالة من الانسجام بين الإنسان والأرض."
Aldo Leopold
"Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers."
"ألا يحتمل أن يكون التعليم مبادلة للبصيرة بما هو"
Aldo Leopold
"In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries no man can ignore all of them."
Aldo Leopold
"One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence of the other. The one studies the human community, almost as if it were a separate entity, and calls its findings sociology, economics and history. The other studies the plant and animal community and comfortably relegates the hodge-podge of politics to the liberal arts. The inevitable fusion of these two lines of thought will, perhaps, constitute the outstanding advance of this century."
Aldo Leopold
"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise."
Aldo Leopold
A Sand County Almanac
"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators... The land is one organism."
Aldo Leopold
"Do not let anyone tell you that these people made work of play. They simply realized that the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown."
Aldo Leopold
"Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to perserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."
Aldo Leopold
"Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible."
Aldo Leopold
"The boundary between tame and wild exists only in the imperfections of the human mind."
Aldo Leopold
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