Aldo Leopold




Aldo Leopold

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born
January 11, 1887

died
April 21, 1948

gender
male

place of birth
Burlington, Iowa, The United States

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genre
Outdoors & Nature, Nonfiction, Philosophy


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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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A Sand County Almanac A Sand County Almanac
by Aldo Leopold
avg rating 4.21 — 1,282 ratings — published 1966
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Round River Round River (Galaxy Book, 372)
by Aldo Leopold
avg rating 4.23 — 22 ratings — published 1972
2 editions
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The River of the Mother of God... The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold
by Aldo Leopold
avg rating 4.40 — 15 ratings — published 1992
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For the Health of the Land: Pr... For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings
by Aldo Leopold
avg rating 4.27 — 11 ratings — published 1999
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Marshland Elegy Marshland Elegy
by Aldo Leopold
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 1999
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Almanach d'un comte des sables... Almanach d'un comte des sablessuivi de quelques croquis
by Aldo Leopold
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2001
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Game Management Game Management
by Aldo Leopold
avg rating 2.50 — 2 ratings — published 1961
2 editions
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Aldo Leopold's Wilderness Aldo Leopold's Wilderness
by Aldo Leopold, David E. Brown, Neil B. Carmony
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Aldo Leopold's Southwest Aldo Leopold's Southwest
by David E. Brown, Aldo Leopold
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"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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"There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot."
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"The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?'"
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