Aldo Leopold Quotes

I've lived in a preindustrial (rural Argentina) as well as an industrial world. You experience a different sense of time in a community that works the land. Human relationships aren't professionalized or contractualized; family and friends take primacy. Life has much more continuity than discontinuity. There's a great deal of poetry in everyday life.

We live in community, and we're created in community. We're created out of the unity of two people, and then we're made into a family. It's just inherent in who we are.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

Most of my books have been about the complex ways an individual depends on community.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

I'm very interested in the way people interact emotionally.

I feel 'The Street' is a really accurate comment on the relationships between people.

They don't get along with me, but I get along with other people.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

I tend to be drawn more to people than pure story ideas.

If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't, I'll stick to animals.

Everyone you know and all the people you meet have the potential to be someone important in the lives of others.

Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind ... but we won’t break.

For me, storytelling is all about how we learn about each other. I'm so curious about people, what makes them tick, why they are who they are, and how we all relate to each other, despite the fact that we may not think that we do.

We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.

All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.

There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the family. And how they live, the money of it.

We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.

I came out of a family background that involved itself with people.

In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."

You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.

That's where peace begins - not just in the plans of leaders, but in the hearts of people. Not just in some carefully designed process, but in the daily connections - that sense of empathy that takes place among those who live together in this land and in this sacred city of Jerusalem.

When we are young and again when we are old, we depend heavily on the affection of others. Between these stages we usually feel that we can do everything without help from others and that other people's affection is simply not important. But at this stage I think it is very important to keep deep human affection.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.