“The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.”

—  Aldo Leopold

"Engineering and Conservation" [1938]; Published in The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold, Susan L. Flader and J. Baird Callicott (eds.) 1991, p. 254.
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