Aldo Leopold Quotes

Perhaps The Most Serious Obstacle Impeding The Evolution Of A Land Ethic Is The Fact That Our Educational And Economic System Is Headed Away From, Rather Than Toward, An Intense Consciousness Of Land. Your True Modern Is Separated From The Land By Many Middlemen, And By Innumerable Physical Gadgets. He Has No Vital Relation To It; To Him It Is The Space Between Cities On Which Crops Grow. Turn Him Loose For A Day On The Land, And If The Spot Does Not Happen To Be A Golf Links Or A "scenic" Area, He Is Bored Stiff. If Crops Could Be Raised By Hydroponics Instead Of Farming, It Would Suit Him Very Well. Synthetic Substitutes For Wood, Leather, Wool, And Other Natural Land Products Suit Him Better Than The Originals. In Short, Land Is Something He Has "outgrown

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