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.

Today Leopold's home is an official landmark of the city of Madison. W. "


A Sand County Almanac
The book was publiAldo Leopoldd in 1949 shortly after Leopold's death.

Leopold was influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement for wilderness conservation. His ethics of nature and wildlife preservation had a profound impact on the environmental movement with his ecocentric or holistic ethics regarding land.