“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone
in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite
invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make
believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he
must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that
believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.”
“Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship
with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We
fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry.”
“The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with
land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any such thing
as land, among whom education and culture have become almost synonymous
with landlessness. This is the problem of conservation education.”
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