The world went through the depression and emerged to fight a world war. Then the McCarthy era provided more negatives. So Aldo wrote from a perspective none of us here can really appreciate. The Leopold Center as it interprets the legacy of Aldo Leopold must keep its programs grounded in the agriculture of Iowa today, while working to fill a sustainable vision of agriculture in the future. It implies respect for his fellow-members and also respect for the community as such.
Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.
Conservation is our effort to understand and preserve this capacity. It is a wonder he held a position and a credit to the university that he was not fired early on. Here is an example of how he viewed the reductionism in modern agricultural science. These men are called professors. Each selects one instrument and spends his life taking it apart and describing its strings and sounding boards.