Aldo Leopold: Elder of the Tribe
“What I am trying to make clear, is that if in a city we had six vacant lots available to the youngsters of a certain neighborhood for playing ball, it might be ‘development’ to build houses on the first, and the second, and the third, and the fourth, and even on the fifth, but when we build houses on the last one, we forget what houses are for. The sixth house would not be development at all, but rather … stupidity.” – Aldo Leopold
An amazing article on conservationist pioneer Aldo Leopold, from the June 1978 article in Backpacker Magazine, is a great primer to Leopold and his “land ethic”.
Be sure to check out Leopold’s influential book, A Sand County Almanac, available at your local library.
(via Cold Splinters)
