From: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
Subject: [l/m 2/18/92] Distilled Wisdom (14/28): Leopold's Land Ethic	XYZ
Date: 14 Apr 92 11:20:53 GMT
Reply-To: eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Followup-To: poster
Organization: NAS Program, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

If we had in the city six vacant lots available to youngsters of a
certain neighborhood for playing ball, it might be 'development' to
build houses on the first, and the second, and the third, and the fourth,
and even on the fifth, but when we build houses on the last one, we forget
what houses are for.  The sixth house would not be development at all
but rather stupidity.
--Aldo Leopold

What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?
--Aldo Leopold

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.
--Aldo Leopold

"In wildness is the preservation of the world."
		--R. W. Emerson

The opposition is largely composed of "short-haired women and long-haired
men."		-- Marsdon Manson

"How many wilderness areas do we need?"
"How many Brahms symphonies do we need?" -- Robert Marshall

Do not be swayed by seemingly democractic arguments.  --David Brower 1944.

The Majority already has its roads and hotels.
Only a small minority enjoy art galleries, libraries, and universities.
Yet no one would suggest making these facilities into bowling alleys,
circuses, or hot dog stands just because more people would use them.
Quality has a claim as well as quantity.  -- Robert Marshall

Do you flood the Sistine chapel so that the tourists can get closer to
the ceiling?  -- David Brower

The West of which I speak is but another name
for the Wild; and what I have been preparing to say is,
that in Wildness is the preservation of the World.  
Every tree sends its fibers forth in search of the Wild.  
The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it.
From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and
barks which brace mankind.  Our ancestors were savages.
The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled
by a wolf is not a meaningless fable.  The founders of
every state which has risen to eminence have drawn
their nourishment and vigor from a similar wild source.
It was because the children of the Empire were not
suckled by the wolf that they were conquered and displaced
by the children of the northern forests who were.
			-- Henry David Thoreau's essay "Walking":

The next post is this chain's "empty lot."
Text to be added to all other links in the chain, but the next one,
should never be touched.

TABLE OF CONTENTS of this chain:

1/ DISCLAIMER
2/ Ethics
3/ Learning I
4/ learning II (lists, "Ten Essentials," Chouinard comments)
5/ Summary of past topics
6/ Non-wisdom: fire-arms topic circular discussion
7/ Learning (3)
8/ Fletcher's Law of Inverse Appreciation and advice
9/ Water Filter wisdom
10/ Words from Rachel Carson
11/ Scouting		<pending>
12/ Netiquette
13/ Questions on conditions and travel
14/ Dedication to Aldo Leopold				<* THIS PANEL *>
15/ Leopold's lot.
16/
17/ Information about bears
18/ Poison ivy, frequently ask, under question
19/ Lyme disease, frequently ask, under question
20/ "Telling questions" backcountry Turing test (under construction)
21/ AMS
22/ Words from Foreman and Hayduke
23/ A bit of song (like camp songs)
24/ What is natural?
25/ A romantic notion of high-tech employment
26/ Other news groups of related interest, networking
27/ Films/cinema references
28/ References (written)