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Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

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Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238) Quotes

“But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy. . . . Nothing could be more salutary at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings.”

“Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very diverse. The differences in the product are known as cultures. The rich diversity of the worlds cultures reflects a corresponding diversity. In the wilds that gave them birth.”