We Are the World

    ‘’One of the penalties of an ecological education is that

one lives alone in a world of wounds’’   

-Aldo Leopold, American conservationist 

Born on this day in 1887, Aldo Leopold is considered by many to be the most influential conservationist of the 20^th century. His research demonstrates highly advanced thinking and the most innovative practice across virtually the entire spectrum of natural resource conservation, policy and management in the first half of the twentieth century.

Educated at Yale,  he went on to become a professor at the University of Wisconsin and published more than 500 scientific works and essays. Also a forester, philosopher, educator,  outdoor enthusiast and writer, he is best known for his work, A Sand County Almanac.

Leopold maintained that we need to think of the environment in terms of a community that includes us as human beings. His innovative concept of the “Land Ethic” broadened the idea of community to include “soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively.’’