Concept
Aldo Leopold
Overview
Aldo Leopold (January 11, 1887 – April 21, 1948) was an American writer, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, professor, conservationist, and environmentalist. He taught at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his book A Sand County Almanac (1949), which has been translated into fifteen languages and has sold more than two million copies.
Leopold was influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement for wilderness conservation. His ethics of nature and wildlife preservation had a profound impact on the environmental movement, with his ecocentric or holistic ethics regarding land. He emphasized biodiversity and ecology and was a founder of the science of wildlife management.
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All other movements, however, which are made by the individual members of each species are due to accident; they are not, according to Aristotle, the result of rule and management; e.g., when a storm or gale blows, it causes undoubtedly some leaves of a tree to drop, breaks off some branches of another tree, tears away a stone from a heap of stones, raises dust over herbs and spoils them, and stirs up the sea so…
Moses Maimonides, The guide for the perplexed
Close in meaning to Aldo Leopold; the term itself is not named.
Naturalists, as we have seen, try to arrange the species, genera and families in each class, on what is called the Natural System. But what is meant by this system?
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
States what Aldo Leopold is.
The actual and implicit practice and the conscious or stated aim thus balance each other. At different times such aims as complete living, better methods of language study, substitution of things for words, social efficiency, personal culture, social service, complete development of personality, encyclopedic knowledge, discipline, a esthetic contemplation, utility, etc., have served. The following discussion takes…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
Close in meaning to Aldo Leopold; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Aldo Leopold
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- Philosophy
- Environmental ethics
- Environmentalism
- Professor
- New Mexico
- Carl Schurz
- University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Scientist
- Yale University
- Henry David Thoreau
- Environmental degradation
- Ecology
- A Sand County Almanac
Place in the tradition
Part of Environmental ethics.