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Article: Aldo Leopold: voice of reason. (sportsman and conservationist)(Brief Article)
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- Outdoor Life
- Article date:
- February 1, 1998
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The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet sufficiently enlightened to realize that we must now challenge that dogma or do without our wilderness? Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master? ... Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us."
--"A Plea for Wilderness Hunting Grounds," by Aldo Leopold, November 1925
In 1887, boys born in Burlington, Iowa, grew into sportsmen, and Aldo Leopold was no exception. From his family's ...