Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

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.