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[https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/321811-a-sand-county-almanac ''A Sand County Almanac with Other Essays on Conservation from Round River'']
[https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/321811-a-sand-county-almanac ''Sand County Almanac with Other Essays on Conservation from Round River'']





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"We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes.

I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes - something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters' paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view…"

-- Aldo Leopold

Sand County Almanac with Other Essays on Conservation from Round River


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Thinking like a mountain was coined by Aldo Leopold in 'A Sand County Almanac'.

In the section entitled "Sketches Here and There" Leopold discusses the thought process as a holistic view on where one stands in the entire ecosystem.

To think like a mountain means to have a complete appreciation for the profound interconnectedness of the elements in the ecosystems.

It is an ecological exercise using the intricate web of the natural environment rather than thinking as an isolated individual...


It's All Related

It's All Connected


Relational Reality

"It's all related, it's all connected..."


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