“The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not.”

— Aldo Leopold, book A Sand County Almanac

Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, Foreword, p. vii.

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American writer and scientist 1887–1948

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