Thought Card – 11 Jan – Birthday of Aldo Leopold, founder of the science of wildlife management

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Aldo Leopold (January 11, 1887 – April 21, 1948) was an American ecologist, forester, and environmentalist.
He is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1949)  which is compared to Henry David Thoreau's Walden, and has sold over two million copies. Influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement for wilderness conservation, his ethics of nature and wildlife preservation had a profound impact on the environmental movement, with his biocentric or holistic ethics regarding land. He emphasized biodiversity and ecology and was a founder of the science of wildlife management. (Source: Wikipedia.org)
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the Aldo Leopold Foundation

QUOTES
The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries
of the community to include soils, waters, plants,
and animals, or collectively: the land… In short,
a land ethic changes  the role of Homosapiens
from conqueror of the  land-community to
plain member  and citizen of it.  It implies
respect for his fellow-members, and also
respect for the community as such.

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