Today in History

some thoughts on today in history by Ned Stuckey-French, author of The American Essay in the American Century

Today is the 125th anniversary of the birth of the great American naturalist and writer Aldo Leopold who wrote, "Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”