“When land does well for its owner and the owner does well by his land – when both end up better by reason of their partnership – then we have conservation.
When one or the other grows poorer either in substance or in character, or in responsiveness to sun, wind, and rain – then we have something else, and it’s something we do not like”
From Aldo Leopold’s “The Farmer as a Conservationist” American Forests 45 (939): 206-12.
