Missouri Conservation by Aldo Leopold

Posted on: September 13, 2018 at 13:03:52 CT

“Conservation, at bottom, rests on the conviction that there are things in this world more important than dollar signs and ciphers. Many of these other things attach to the land, and to the life that is on it and in it,” he said at a gathering in 1947, according to the Department of Conservation website. “People who know these other things have been growing scarcer, but less so in Missouri than elsewhere. That is why conservation is possible here. If conservation can become a living reality, it can do so in Missouri. This is because Missourians, in my opinion, are not completely industrialized in mind and spirit, and I hope never will be.”
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