“Ética é a diferenciação da conduta social da anti-social para o bem comum.”
p.238
Fonte: A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold, Oxford University Press, 240pp.
Aldo Leopold foi um silvicultor, acadêmico, filósofo ambiental e conservacionista estadounidense, que, por seu extenso trabalho sobre a conservação da vida selvagem e dos espaços naturais, é considerado uma figura importante na história do conservacionismo e o fundador da ciência da conservação nos Estados Unidos.Pioneiro na elaboração de formulações éticas que buscam levar em consideração a comunidade biótica da Terra, Leopold influenciou profundamente o desenvolvimento da ética ambiental presente no movimento conservacionista. Após ter participado da fundação da The Wilderness Society, em 1935 adquiriu terras no interior do Wisconsin, nas quais pôs em prática suas inovadoras ideias sobre a restauração ecológica. Essas experiências seriam postumamente reunidas em sua obra mais importante, A Sand County Almanac. Wikipedia
“Ética é a diferenciação da conduta social da anti-social para o bem comum.”
p.238
Fonte: A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold, Oxford University Press, 240pp.
"Conservation" (c. 1938); Published in Round River, Luna B. Leopold (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 155.
1930s
Fonte: Round River: From the Journals of Aldo Leopold
“March: The Geese Return”, p. 18.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "January Thaw", "February: Good Oak" & "March: The Geese Return"
Fonte: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.”
" The Round River: A Parable http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/AldoLeopold/AldoLeopold-idx?type=turn&entity=AldoLeopold.ALDeskFile.p0655&id=AldoLeopold.ALDeskFile&isize=XL" (c. 1940-48); Published in Round River, Luna B. Leopold (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 165.
1940s
“November: Axe-in-Hand”, p. 68.
Fonte: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "November: Axe-in-Hand," "November: A Mighty Fortress," and "December: Pines above the Snow"
Contexto: I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks about while chopping, or while deciding what to chop. A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land.
“March: The Geese Return”, p. 18.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "January Thaw", "February: Good Oak" & "March: The Geese Return"
“To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.”
"Conservation" (c. 1938); Published in Round River, Luna B. Leopold (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 146-147.
1930s
Fonte: A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River
Contexto: The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. Only those who know the most about it can appreciation how little we know about it. The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
Fonte: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "The Land Ethic", p. 214.
"Game and Wild Life Conservation" [1932]; 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. 165-166.
1930s
“Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.”
“February: Good Oak”, p. 8.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "January Thaw", "February: Good Oak" & "March: The Geese Return"
Fonte: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "Conservation Esthetic", p. 165.
“Our new camp is on a windswept rock point. … We don't know what lake we're on, and don't care …”
"Canada, 1925"; Published in Round River, Luna B. Leopold (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 67.
1920s
Fonte: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "The Land Ethic", p. 223-224.
Fonte: 1930s, Game Management, 1933, Chapter XVI, "Game Economics and Esthetics", p. 391.
"Natural History: The Forgotten Science" [1938]; Published in Round River, Luna B. Leopold (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 62.
1930s
" Roadside Prairies http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/AldoLeopold/AldoLeopold-idx?type=turn&entity=AldoLeopold.ALDeskFile.p0123&id=AldoLeopold.ALDeskFile&isize=XL" [1941]; Published in For the Health of the Land, J. Baird Callicott and Eric T. Freyfogle (eds.), 1999, p. 138.
1940s
Fonte: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "The Land Ethic", p. 225.
"Review of The Wolves of North America by Stanley P. Young and Edward A. Goldman" [1944]; Published in Aldo Leopold's Southwest, David E. Brown and Neil B. Carmony (eds.) 1990 , p. 226.
1940s
"Review of Meet Mr. Grizzly by Montague Stevens" [1944]; Published in Aldo Leopold's Southwest, David E. Brown and Neil B. Carmony (eds.) 1990, p. 220.
1940s
“January: January Thaw”, p. 4.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "January Thaw", "February: Good Oak" & "March: The Geese Return"
"The Ecological Conscience" [1947]; 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. 343.
1940s
“Whoever invented the word ‘grace’ must have seen the wing-folding of the plover.”
“May: Back from the Argentine”, p. 34-35.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "May: Back from the Argentine," "June: The Alder Fork," "July: Great Possessions," and "July: Prairie Birthday"
“June: The Alder Fork”, p. 39.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "May: Back from the Argentine," "June: The Alder Fork," "July: Great Possessions," and "July: Prairie Birthday"
letter http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/AldoLeopold/AldoLeopold-idx?type=turn&id=AldoLeopold.ALCorresAK&entity=AldoLeopold.ALCorresAK.p0597&isize=XL to Wallace Grange, 3 January 1948.
1940s
" Country http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/AldoLeopold/AldoLeopold-idx?type=turn&entity=AldoLeopold.ALDeskFile.p0666&id=AldoLeopold.ALDeskFile&isize=XL" [1941]; Published in Round River, Luna B. Leopold (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 32-33.
1940s
"Planning for Wildlife" [1941]; Published in For the Health of the Land, J. Baird Callicott and Eric T. Freyfogle (eds.), 1999, p. 197.
1940s
“July: Prairie Birthday”, p. 44.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "May: Back from the Argentine," "June: The Alder Fork," "July: Great Possessions," and "July: Prairie Birthday"
“Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.”
" Country http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/AldoLeopold/AldoLeopold-idx?type=turn&entity=AldoLeopold.ALDeskFile.p0666&id=AldoLeopold.ALDeskFile&isize=XL" [1941]; Published in Round River, Luna B. Leopold (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 31.
1940s