Aldo Leopold:
(Burlington, Jan. 11, 1887 – Baraboo, April 21, 1948).
American forest manager, ecologist, conservationist and author. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is known as the author of A Sand County Almanac (1949). Leopold was an influential figure in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement to protect wilderness areas. He was creator of the land ethic, an ecocentric and holistic view of man’s role in the natural environment.
The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on. A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind.
In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries. No man can ignore all of them.
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
