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He rose quietly from his bunk, careful not to disturb others in the predawn darkness. He stirred the embers of the fire, bringing it back to life. When the coffee was ready, he took the entire pot and slipped out the door. Sitting on a nearby bench—one he had fashioned himself from a downed tree—he sipped coffee and listened to the awakening day. He pulled the tiny notebook and knife-sharpened pencil from his shirt pocket and began to record by the light of the stars and moon.
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Notes
- 1.
Aldo Leopold, cited in: Curt Meine, Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work, 2nd ed. (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010), 484–85.
- 2.
Leopold, cited in: Julianne Lutz Newton, Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey: Rediscovering the Author of A Sand County Almanac (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006), 264.
- 3.
Frederic Leopold, quoted in Meine, 20.
- 4.
Ibid., 17.
- 5.
Frederic Leopold, quoted in: Thomas Tanner, ed., Aldo Leopold: The Man and His Legacy (Ankeny, IA: Soil Conservation Society of America, 1987), 78.
- 6.
Aldo Leopold, quoted in Meine, 23.
- 7.
Ibid., 70.
- 8.
Ibid., 41.
- 9.
Ibid., 52.
- 10.
Ibid., 58.
- 11.
Ibid., 65.
- 12.
Ibid., 81.
- 13.
Ibid., 82.
- 14.
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, special commemorative edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989; first published, 1949), 134.
- 15.
Aldo Leopold, quoted in Meine, 94.
- 16.
Leopold, quoted in: Susan L. Flader, Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994), 53.
- 17.
Leopold, quoted in Meine, 97.
- 18.
Ibid., 95.
- 19.
Ibid., 116.
- 20.
Leopold, quoted in Tanner, 130.
- 21.
Leopold, quoted in Meine, 130.
- 22.
Ibid., 119.
- 23.
Ibid., 106.
- 24.
Ibid., 109.
- 25.
Ibid., 152.
- 26.
Ibid., 137.
- 27.
Ibid., 146.
- 28.
Flader, Thinking Like a Mountain, 12.
- 29.
Leopold, quoted in Meine, 188.
- 30.
Leopold, quoted in: Craig W. Allin, “The Leopold Legacy and American Wilderness,” in Tanner, 29.
- 31.
Leopold, quoted in Meine, 196.
- 32.
Ibid., 183.
- 33.
Ibid., 196.
- 34.
Leopold, quoted in Newton, 14.
- 35.
Meine, 234.
- 36.
Robert A. McCabe, Aldo Leopold: The Professor (Amherst, WI: Palmer Publications, 1987), 134.
- 37.
Estella Leopold, quoted in Tanner, 165–66.
- 38.
Flader, Thinking Like a Mountain, 4.
- 39.
Data from Flader, Thinking Like a Mountain, 21.
- 40.
Leopold, quoted in Newton, 111.
- 41.
Meine, 279.
- 42.
Flader, Thinking Like a Mountain, 22.
- 43.
Leopold, quoted in Meine, 277.
- 44.
Leopold, quoted in Meine, 298.
- 45.
Leopold, quoted in Newton, 271.
- 46.
Leopold, quoted in: Curt Meine, “The Farmer as Conservationist: Leopold on Agriculture,” in Tanner, 39.
- 47.
Ibid., 46.
- 48.
Aldo Leopold, Game Management (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986; first published, 1933), xxxi.
- 49.
Cited in Newton, 275.
- 50.
McCabe, 4.
- 51.
Leopold, quoted in McCabe, 16.
- 52.
Ibid., 57.
- 53.
Cited in Meine, 397.
- 54.
Details in this and the previous paragraph are drawn from: Susan Flader, “Aldo Leopold’s Sand County,” in J. Baird Callicott, ed., Companion to A Sand County Almanac (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987).
- 55.
Ibid., 53.
- 56.
Nina Leopold to Estella Leopold, in Tanner, 169–70.
- 57.
McCabe, 94.
- 58.
Leopold, quoted in Newton, 182.
- 59.
Leopold, quoted in Meine, 394.
- 60.
Ibid., 383.
- 61.
Leopold, quoted in Flader, Thinking Like a Mountain, 330.
- 62.
Meine, 405.
- 63.
P. S. Lovejoy, quoted in Meine, 407.
- 64.
Ibid.
- 65.
Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 224–25.
- 66.
Leopold, quoted in: H. Albert Hochbaum, in Robert A. McCabe, Aldo Leopold: Mentor, Department of Wildlife Ecology (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988), 63.
- 67.
Flader, Thinking Like a Mountain, 138.
- 68.
Quoted in Flader, Thinking Like a Mountain, 202.
- 69.
Leopold, quoted in Flader, Thinking Like a Mountain, 260.
- 70.
Letter from Estella Leopold to her sister, Nina, dated April 26, 1948, included in McCabe, Aldo Leopold: The Professor, 143–44.
- 71.
Roderick Nash, “Aldo Leopold and the Limits of American Liberalism,” in Tanner, 78.
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