Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Alma Quotes

A collection of quotes by Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Alma.

Aldo Leopold, author of A Sand County Alma, was a renowned American ecologist, forester, and environmentalist. Born in 1887, he dedicated his life to studying and advocating for the conservation of wilderness areas and wildlife management. Leopold joined the U.S. Forest Service, where he worked on various projects to restore lands damaged by human activities. His book, A Sand County Alma, published posthumously in 1949, became a classic in the field of environmental literature. Leopold's pioneering ideas and ethics on ecological restoration and land stewardship continue to influence environmentalists and conservationists to this day.

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. To avoid the first danger, one should plant a garden, preferably where there is no grocer to confuse the issue. To avoid the second, he should lay a split of good oak on the andirons, preferably where there is no furnace, and let it warm his shins while a February blizzard tosses the trees outside. If one has cut, split, hauled, and piled his own good oak, and let his mind work the while, he will remember much about where heat comes from, and with a wealth of detail denied to those who spend the weekend in town astride a radiator.

Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Alma

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