Do conhecimento

Nicholas Roerich, Waiting (1927)

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“...the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.” 

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Aldo Leopold.

Tempos I

Ivan Bilibin, Crimea. Mountains (1916)

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“Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.”

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Aldo Leopold

Criar

Hasui Kawase, Evening at the Kintaibashi in Spring (1947)

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“Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.”

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Aldo Leopold

Arte e Natureza

René Lalique (imagem de Sanda Foisoreana)

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“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.”

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Aldo Leopold.

Terra

Paul Gauguin, Working the land (1873, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)

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“We abuse land because we see 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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Aldo Leopold

Da ética

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Flemish Proverbs (1559 - via Gandalf's Gallery)

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“Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching - even when doing the wrong thing is legal.”

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Aldo Leopold