Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology (Library of America, #238)

by Aldo Leopold

Now we face the question whether a still higher ‘standard of living’ is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

It is now generally understood that when soil loses fertility, or washes away faster than it forms, and when water systems exhibit abnormal floods and shortages, the land is sick.