Status Updates From Aldo Leopold: A Sand County...

“Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness… I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?”

“I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.”

“Thus always does history, whether of marsh or market place, and in paradox… all conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wildness left to cherish.”