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Aldo Leopold est un forestier, écologue et écologiste américain. Il a influencé le développement de l'éthique environnementale moderne et le mouvement pour la protection des espaces naturels. Aldo Leopold est considéré comme l'un des pères de la gestion de la protection de l'environnement aux États-Unis. Il a pratiqué la pêche et la chasse tout au long de sa vie. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. janvier 1887 – 21. avril 1948   •   Autres noms آلدو لئوپولد, ალდო ლეოპოლდი
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“When we hear [the crane’s] call we hear no mere bird. We hear the trumpet in the orchestra of evolution. He is the symbol of our untamable past, of that incredible sweep of millennia which underlies and conditions the daily affairs of birds and men.”

Aldo Leopold livre Almanach d'un comté des sables

“Wisconsin: Marshland Elegy”, p. 96.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Wisconsin: Marshland Elegy," "Wisconsin: The Sand Counties" "Wisconsin: On a Monument to the Pigeon," and "Wisconsin: Flambeau"

“He who owns a veteran bur oak owns more than a tree. He owns a historical library, and a reserved seat in the theater of evolution. To the discerning eye, his farm is labeled with the badge and symbol of the prairie war.”

Aldo Leopold livre Almanach d'un comté des sables

“April: Bur Oak”, p. 30.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "April: Come High Water," "April: Draba," "April: Bur Oak," & "April:Sky Dance"

“Land-use ethics are still governed wholly by economic self-interest, just as social ethics were a century ago.”

Aldo Leopold livre Almanach d'un comté des sables

Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "The Land Ethic", p. 209.

“Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.”

Aldo Leopold livre Almanach d'un comté des sables

Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Conservation Esthetic", p. 176-177.

“In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too.”

Aldo Leopold livre Almanach d'un comté des sables

“May: Back from the Argentine”, p. 35.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "May: Back from the Argentine," "June: The Alder Fork," "July: Great Possessions," and "July: Prairie Birthday"

“Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.”

Aldo Leopold livre Almanach d'un comté des sables

Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Wilderness", p. 199.