“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.” The wild things in this opening line mean the creature, plants, spaces, and feature of the wild or wilderness, and not the more kinetic definition of it. Aldo Leopold was an early environmentalist, if we’re using the 20th century determination of the word, as opposed to a more general term like naturalist. He believed in the conservation, stewardship, and those other more classic understandings. This book is a small set of essays […]