A legacy of land and ideas
"The goose on the bar, rising briefly to a point of order in some inaudible anserine debate, lets fall no hint that he speaks with the authority of all the far hills and the sea."
Aldo Leopold was born in Burlington, Iowa 125 years ago today. He would later outline the ecological ideas and natural ethics that would shape wildlife and wild lands conservation in 20th Century America. And unbeknownst to him, his written work would provide guideposts to future generations of citizen naturalists, enabling them to find a timeless path of their own, a channel for thoughts and feelings that would otherwise be frustrated, forever unexpressed.