Aldo Leopold - 'A Sand County Almanac'

This weeks Green Thought is taken from Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac ( written in the 30’s and 40’s).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Leopold

http://www.aldoleopold.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sand_County_Almanac

(from ‘Thinking like a mountain’ in ‘A Sand County Almanac’.)

‘We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness……but too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run. Perhaps this is behind Thoreau’s dictum : ‘In wildness is the salvation of the world’’.