Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the esthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture.

-Aldo Leopold -Sand County Almanac
(More books came my way from a conservationist/naturalist person who died with no family. It is an amazing gift of great field guides, illustrated works, and books like the above, which I have not yet read but really should have already. I am really pleased by the unexpected gift from someone like-minded I never knew.)