“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.”
― A Sand County Almanac
― A Sand County Almanac
“The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.”
― A Sand County Almanac
― A Sand County Almanac
“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.”
― A Sand County Almanac
― A Sand County Almanac
“Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.”
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
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