Stokowski Leopold Quotes

I believe in a passionately strong feeling for the poetry of life - for the beautiful, the mysterious, the romantic, the ecstatic - the loveliness of Nature, the lovability of people, everything that excites us, everything that starts our imagination working, LAUGHTER, gaiety, strength, heroism, love, tenderness, every time we see - however dimly - the godlike that is in everyone and want to kneel in reverence. ~ Leopold Stokowski

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing. ~ Leopold Stokowski

Music appeals to me for what can be done with it. ~ Leopold Stokowski

Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart ... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression ... its range is without limit ... forever growing ... can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man. ~ Leopold Stokowski

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals. ~ Aldo Leopold

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. ~ Aldo Leopold

Camp-keeping in the Delta was not all beer and skittles. ~ Aldo Leopold

What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map? ~ Aldo Leopold

Wall Street is a place where the day begins with good buys. ~ Leopold Fechtner

I feel a deep sense of security in this single-mindedness of freight trains ~ Aldo Leopold

An oak is no respecter of persons. ~ Aldo Leopold

We grieve only for what we know. ~ Aldo Leopold

At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant. ~ Aldo Leopold

The boundary between tame and wild exists only in the imperfections of the human mind. ~ Aldo Leopold

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness. ~ Aldo Leopold

Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another. ~ Aldo Leopold

Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health. ~ Aldo Leopold

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial. ~ Aldo Leopold

My heart is a void, dead, and this makes me sad. ~ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Six days shalt thou paddle and pack, but on the seventh thou shall wash thy socks. ~ Aldo Leopold

Man desires, woman is desired. ~ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf. ~ Aldo Leopold

November is, for many reasons, the month for the axe ~ Aldo Leopold

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. ~ Aldo Leopold

The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me. ~ Leopold Sedar Senghor

There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why. ~ Aldo Leopold

That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our
best. ~ Aldo Leopold

On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa. ~ Leopold Trepper

Nearly every understanding is gained by a painful struggle in which belief and unbelief are dramatically interwoven. ~ Leopold Infeld

O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me ~ Aldo Leopold

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it. ~ Aldo Leopold

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman. ~ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Obligations have no meaning without conscience, and the problem we face is the extension of the social conscience from people to the land ~ Aldo Leopold

Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe. ~ Leopold Sedar Senghor

My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing ~ Leopold Fechtner

What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist? ~ Leopold Kronecker

God made the integers; all else is the work of man. ~ Leopold Kronecker

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring. ~ Aldo Leopold

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity. ~ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul - hope you like what you see. ~ Aldo Leopold

For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. ~ Aldo Leopold

The number of people who left for the United states and Canada increased with every year. ~ Leopold Trepper

It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature. ~ Aldo Leopold

Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky. ~ Aldo Leopold

Jason Leopold's News Junkie, an autobiographical look at Leopold's accidental entrance into journalism, is a powerful piece that delves into one man's misery and success. ~ Boston Herald

Number theorists are like lotus-eaters
having once tasted of this food they can never give it up. ~ Leopold Kronecker

Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land. ~ Aldo Leopold

Let us listen to the voices of our Forebears ... In the smoky cabin, souls that wish us well are murmuring. ~ Leopold Sedar Senghor

To any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution. ~ Aldo Leopold

Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy. ~ Aldo Leopold

Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches. ~ Aldo Leopold

I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey. ~ Aldo Leopold

Why are we here?", Douglas cried, as poop came out his weiner in a long thin strip, it was weiner-poop, which is the grossest poop of all. ~ Leopold Butters Stotch

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief. ~ Aldo Leopold

Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gatt gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.
The dear God has made the whole numbers, all the rest is man's work. ~ Leopold Kronecker

I am convinced that most Americans of the new generation have no idea what a decent forest looks like. The only way to tell them is to show them. ~ Aldo Leopold

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day. ~ Leopold Trepper

They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst. ~ Leopold Schefer

On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh. ~ Aldo Leopold

That dark laboratory we call the soil. ~ Aldo Leopold

All about us the earth steamed; mists rose up toward heaven like clouds of incense; a shattered rainbow still hovered in the air. ~ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values. ~ Aldo Leopold

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct ~ Aldo Leopold

Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands. ~ Aldo Leopold

Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there. ~ Aldo Leopold

My wife is really sentimental. One Valentine's Day I gave her a ring and to this day she has never forgotten those three little words that were engraved inside Made in Taiwan! ~ Leopold Fechtner

Getting up too early is a vice habitual in horned owls, stars, geese, and freight trains. Some hunters acquire it from geese, and some coffee pots from hunters. ~ Aldo Leopold

Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal. ~ Aldo Leopold

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost. ~ Aldo Leopold

So," Wanda cried, "a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery? ~ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not. ~ Aldo Leopold

Yes Leopold," Eleanor said in a low, mocking voice. "Do start to shine, please. I think I saw the rising, but I definitely missed the shining. ~ Eloisa James

You are cold, while you yourself fan flames. ~ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Every man
I know this
turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love. ~ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped,
deserves to be whipped. ~ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it. ~ Leopold Von Ranke

The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse. ~ Aldo Leopold

But one on earth is better than the wife; that is the mother. ~ Leopold Schefer

The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask. ~ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays. ~ Aldo Leopold

A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of the land. ~ Aldo Leopold

Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman? ~ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think. ~ Aldo Leopold

Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes. ~ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

...it is disquieting to feel that the conversion into a National Forest or Park always means the esthetic death of a piece of wild country. ~ Aldo Leopold

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood ... ~ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

In country, as in people, a plain exterior often conceals
hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with. ~ Aldo Leopold

The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future. ~ Aldo Leopold

They know no urge of seasons; they feel no kiss of sun, no lash of wind and weather. They live forever by not living at all. ~ Aldo Leopold

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education. ~ Aldo Leopold

Each time thou wishest to decide upon performing some enterprise, raise the eyes to heaven, pray God to bless thy project; if thou canst make that prayer, accomplish thy work. ~ Leopold Schefer

Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature. ~ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all. ~ Aldo Leopold

It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology. ~ Leopold Von Ranke

Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events. ~ Aldo Leopold

The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered place under everybody's nose ~ Aldo Leopold

We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in. ~ Aldo Leopold

The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth. ~ Aldo Leopold

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry. ~ Leopold Schefer

I love this book. When other U.S. reporters were licking Ken Lay's loafers, Leopold went for Enron's thieving throat. Leopold is a journalist who insists on real investigative reporting–inside documents, inside sources, hard knife-in-the-gut evidence–detective-style reporting that is just about illegal in the U.S.A. Bravo and my personal Pulitzer to Jason Leopold. Every journalist in America should read this, then quit or riot. ~ Greg Palast