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Leopold, Aldo
1887 – He was born on the 11th day of January of this year, in Burlington, Iowa.
1909 - He received his Master's degree in Forestry, on this year.
1924 - He was transferred to the Forest Products Lab in Madison, Wisconsin on this year, and after 19 years of service in the United States Forest Service.
1928 - He left the Forest Service on this year and started doing independent contract work. He mostly did wildlife and game surveys throughout the U.S.
1933 - He was appointed Professor of Game Management in the Agricultural Economics Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on this year.
1935 – He becomes the founder of the Wilderness Society on this year. 1948 – He died from a heart attack, while fighting a brush fire on a neighbor's farm on this year.
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- "We face the question whether a still higher standard of living is worth its costs in things natural, wild, and free."
- "Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher'standard of living'is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important that television."
- "A thing is right if it tends to preserve the stability, integrity, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong if it tends otherwise."
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A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold (Paperback - Dec 31, 1968) First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau... ![]() Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays&Reflections) by Aldo Leopold (Mass Market Paperback - Dec 12, 1986) Published in 1949, shortly after the author's death,A Sand County Almanacis a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Writing from the... ![]() Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold by Aldo Leopold (Paperback - Dec 15, 1992) ![]() Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Round River (Galaxy Book, 372) by Aldo Leopold (Paperback - Mar 30, 1972) To those who know the charm of Aldo Leopold's writing in A Sand County Almanac, this collection from his journals and essays will be a new delight. The journal entries included here were written in... ![]() Usually ships in 24 hours |
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A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold (Audio CD - Aug 17, 2006) "There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot." So begins A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold's simple expression... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work by Curt D. Meine (Paperback - Aug 15, 1991) ![]() Usually ships in 24 hours |
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