We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

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.