#aldoleopold — Public Fediverse posts
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Aldo Leopold on How to Hear the Song of Life
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/12/03/aldo-leopold-river-science/
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Well, dang, Aldo Leopold could write!
"We inherit the carth, but within the limits of the soil and the plant succession we also rebuild the earth, without plan, without knowledge of its properties, and without understanding of the increasingly coarse and powerful tools which sciencehas placed at our disposal. Weare remodelling the Alhambra with a steam-shovel."
- Aldo Leopold The Conservation Ethic -
Next week, I'll be talking with the Aldo Leopold Foundation's Jennifer Sterling as part of the Land Ethic Live series. This is such a great organization, advancing Leopold's foundational conservation ideals. The event is free. I hope you'll check it out!
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Draba
“Within a few weeks now Draba, the smallest flower that blows, will sprinkle every sandy place with small blooms. He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.
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Homo Hortus
La Vision Interconnectée de Leopold : Une Approche Holistique de la Nature
https://mcinformactions.net/la-vision-interconnectee-de-leopold-une-approche-holistique-de-la-nature
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University of Wisconsin-Madison: Leopold’s journals that informed ‘A Sand County Almanac’ more accessible than ever before . “Thanks to the careful work of passionate volunteers, University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries Digital Collections Center, University Archives and Records Management, and the Aldo Leopold Foundation, all 1,100 handwritten pages of Leopold’s Shack journals are […]
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"For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun."
-- Aldo Leopold, 'On a Monument to a Pigeon' (1947)
The idea of memorials or remembrance, to draw attention to #species #extinction, is neither new nor trivial. It's an expression of bereavement drawing from our #humanity and a recognition of our kinship with other beings.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/30/the-big-idea-on-remembrance-day-for-lost-species-heres-why-it-matters
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“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.”
~Aldo Leopold, “A Sand County Almanac”
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@GreenFire
This book deserves the Wiki entry:"book by American #ecologist, forester, and environmentalist #AldoLeopold. Describing the land around the author's home in...#Wisconsin, the collection of essays advocate Leopold's idea of a "land ethic", or a responsible relationship existing between people and the land they inhabit.... considered a landmark in the American conservation movement"
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On this #EarthDay, I am again reminded of this prescient quote by Aldo Leopold: "The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces." ©Carl R. Englander Photo taken from Point Sublime, North Rim, #GrandCanyon #NationalPark #Arizona #AldoLeopold #Quote #NaturePhotography #PhotographersOfMastodon #Photography #Photo #Photographer #Film #Wild #Outdoors #Nature #Naturalist #Conservation #BiologicalDiversity #Biodiversity #Environment #Ecosystem #Ecology #Climate #ClimateChange
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Not everyone is prepared to do #DirectAction and risk arrest. However, that doesn't mean you can't get involved. Some good tips here for anyone who is new to #activism, or who wants to learn more...
"Here in the United States, a common place to start researching #environmentalism is in the works of #AldoLeopold, #RachelCarson, and #EdwardAbbey. Although the work of these authors is undeniably crucial to understanding the landscape of modern environmentalist thought, it’s only a skim of the surface of the centuries of work done by #Indigenous leaders to protect and conserve #Earth and the natural resources we can’t live without –– the water we drink, the air we breathe."
The Introvert’s Guide to Environmental Activism
by Deanna Pratt | Mar 7, 2020
"Putting yourself out there and standing up for something you believe in can be really intimidating. Especially if you’re an introvert.
"Inside of most environmental activists and organizers –– including myself –– there’s an intense battle raging on between our passion for environmental justice and our fear of being seen and heard. It takes an immense amount of vulnerability to put your most intimate beliefs and worldviews out in the open for the world to see.
"Despite that, we still choose to post on social media, attend rallies, and organize community meet-ups and events because we know it’s what we have to do in the face of the climate crisis.
"If you’re someone who wants to get involved in environmental activism but, you’re not sure how to comfortably start, this guide is for you.
"Here are three steps you can take to progressively ease into environmental activism and community outreach."
Read more:
https://ecoally.co/environmental-activism-guide/#EcoAlly #EcoActivists #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #ActNow #EnvironmentalActivists #IntrovertedActivists #DefendTheDefenders #ActivismIsNotACrime #ClimateJusticeNow #ProtestIsNotACrime
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Although I'm almost always working on multiple books at once, my currently-reading list is a bit crazy right now. Not including more general reading for class prep and research, I'm currently working on...
- I resumed David Waldstreicher's *The Odyssey of #PhillisWheatley* after some time away due to work. So glad I didn't let it fall off completely -- it's fantastic.
- I started #MollFlanders a week or two ago. Although familiar with its story and historical/literary influence, have never read it.
- I've fallen headfirst into the Library of America #AldoLeopold volume.
- And some skimming for class prep turned into a full read of Kathryn Olivarius's award-winning *Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom*.
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"But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy. [...] Nothing could be more salutary at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings."
Foreword to A Sand County Almanac
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With all of the hot air these days, I am reminded of this prescient quote by Aldo Leopold: "The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces."
Photo taken from Point Sublime, North Rim, #GrandCanyon #NationalPark #Arizona #AldoLeopold #Quote #ThrowbackThursday #NaturePhotography #PhotographersOfMastodon #Photography #Photo #Photographer #Film #Wild #Outdoors #Nature #Naturalist #Conservation #BiologicalDiversity #Biodiversity #Environment #Ecosystem #Ecology ©Carl R. Englander
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@joycebell Yeah, sobering. The media is #complicit But I love & agree with your #AldoLeopold quote. Shine on.
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ICYMI: #Community #AldoLeopold UW-Stevens Point to mark 50 years of environmental ethics education https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/03/30/uw-stevens-point-to-mark-50-years-of-environmental-ethics-education/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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"There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace." #AldoLeopold
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Thinking Like a Mountain (1949)
A deep chesty bawl echoes from rimrock to rimrock, rolls down the mountain, and fades into the far blackness of the night. It is an outburst of wild defiant sorrow, and of contempt for all the adversities of the world. Every living thing (and perhaps many a dead one as well) pays heed to that call. ...
-- Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
https://web.archive.org/web/19991014005807/http://www.eco-action.org/dt/thinking.html
#AldoLeopold #Wolves #Ecology #TheLandEthic #Interconnectedness
