"I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks about while chopping, or while deciding what to chop. A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land."

Source : Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.68, Oxford University Press, USA

Aldo Leopold

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