Aldo Leopold generally got it about right.
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us,” he wrote in his book A Sand County Almanac. “When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
It was forgetting this that led us to denature the lands we had, and it is in remembering it, and also Leopold’s other advice that we have degraded the place to such an extent that only we – humankind – can put it back together again, that we will recover it.
In the last four years I have walked over 10,000 miles around Great ...
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