Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.

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.