In “A Sand County Almanac” written by Aldo Leopold he describes his lessons, his concerns, and his love of nature and its conservation. Through out the book one thing is obvious, Leopold’s fire about nature and his hatred about what we as humans do to it ignorantly. He says it best in this quote “Above all we should, in the century since Darwin, have come to know that man, while captain of the adventuring ship, is hardly the sole object of its quest, and that his prior assumptions to this effect arose from the simple necessity of whistling in the dark.”(p109) Leopold basically says in this quote that humans are very greedy and stupid creatures. Humans only think of themselves and what will be best for us, and not for the environment. Once the environments condition starts effecting is when we start paying attention. Trees and animals cannot talk so we must talk for them and think for them also. When we do something to the environment we should think of the effects to it and what it will disturb and ultimately lead to. When we don’t think of these things and destroy habitat of animals it ultimately leads to extinction. Leopold also had a significant passage about ex

“For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. The Cro-Magnon who slew the last mammoth thought only of steaks. The sportsman who shot the last [Passenger] pigeon thought only of his prowess. The sailor who clubbed the last auck thought of nothing at all. But we, who have lost our pigeons, mourn the loss. Had the funeral been ours, the pigeons would hardly have mourned us. In this fact, rather than in Mr. DuPont's nylons or Mr. Vannevar Bush's bombs, lies objective evidence of our superiority over the beasts. (p109-110)

This passage is nothing but true and makes Leopold sick because we think absolutely nothing about it. The person who kills the last tiger will only think of its bones for japans market and fur a rug. We do not think about what this can do to the environment. What happens to the things tigers used to hunt and kill? They used to keep the gazelle population down but now they will grow and start eating others food destroying landscape and the equilibrium will have again been disrupted. Leopold also points out that nature never really gets back that equilibrium. This is what it is all about nature and god created everything for a reason if we take away one element then another is left in the dark, slowly maybe in centuries it will correct itself but who will ever know? “Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. By land is meant all of the things on, over, or in the

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