Aldo Leopold





Aldo Leopold

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born
in Burlington, Iowa, The United States
January 11, 1887

died
April 21, 1948

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Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) had lasting impact on natural resource management and policy in the early to mid-twentieth century and his influence has continued to expand since his death. It was through his observation, experience, and reflection at his Wisconsin river farm that he honed the concepts of land health and a land ethic that have had ever-growing influence in the years since his death. He published more than five hundred articles and three books during the course of his geographically widespread career, but it was time at his shack and farm in Wisconsin that inspired most of the disarmingly simple essays in A Sand County Almanac that so many have found so thought-provoking.

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Average rating: 4.20 · 9,456 ratings · 495 reviews · 14 distinct works · Similar authors
A Sand County Almanac: With...
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 9,212 ratings — published 1949 — 25 editions
A Sand County Almanac: And ...
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 270 ratings3 editions
Round River
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1972 — 3 editions
The River of the Mother of ...
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4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions
For the Health of the Land:...
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4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions
Game Management
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1986 — 3 editions
Aldo Leopold's Southwest
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1995
A Sand County Almanac & Oth...
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013
Marshland Elegy
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1999
Aldo Leopold's Wilderness
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4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1990
More books by Aldo Leopold…
“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.”
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
Aldo Leopold

“Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
Aldo Leopold

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